As an outsider looking in at the situation in Egypt it is very confusing. I am going to explore my thoughts via this piece. It would be appreciated if anyone who had thoughts on this would comment. It just seems like awful conflict with both sides wrong.First allow me to admit that most of my news comes from NPR. While many folks rant about NPR’s “Liberal” slant I find it one of the few news sources without a large bias. So many of the news sources of our time are more opinion than news and/or have a definite bias. Since I almost never watch TV news, my other source of news is the Internet, so much of which must be taken with a grain of salt. I do tend to browse the more liberal news/opinion sites. To counterbalance this I do browse the BBC site almost daily to get a point of view from outside the United States. On very rare occasions I will look at Al Jazeera site. Like most folks I am stuck in my bias silo, but I do attempt to make the occasional foray into other arenas of thought.
I have a love/hate relationship with my country. Continue reading “Egypt – The Withering of the Arab Spring”