Revolution – A sudden, radical, or complete change; a fundamental change in political organization. – Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary.
Everyone is talking about the revolution in Egypt, but the Egyptians did not have a revolution, they had a rebellion. Their old president (Hosni Mubarak) was a military man who ruled for 30 years. He became too corrupt and ignored the masses of the Egyptians so much that they were suffering economic strife. So many of the unemployed educated people of Egypt protested and demanded that Mubarak leave his post. And who’s running Egypt now? The military. All the Egyptians did was replace one military man with another. The people are screaming democracy, but what they really want are jobs and less corruption, so if the new military man rules in a more fair way, he will reign for as many years as he is just. The people may try democracy until they find out that a democratic Egypt will leave them poor and at the bottom with the wealthy elite taking everything that they can just like in India, U.S. Mexico, etc.
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