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Egypt Updates: Mubarak Names VP, Makes Things Worse

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albusteve1/29/2011 11:12:05 am PST

re: #75 000G

I am sure a lot of them are only paying lipservice to what they know sounds good to foreigners and also “the people”.

One thing I think could be done in Egypt would be voting a national assembly to craft a new constitution and then put that to a popular vote. If it includes all sorts of provisions like seperations of powers, seperation of state and religion, etc. which the people at least in theory should be interested in, then that would be a great start. Somehow this hypothetical does not strike me as absolutely bizarre and unrealistic where things are right now…

GB thought the very same thought, only years ago….remarkable