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user-inactivated · 4157 days ago · link · · parent · post: Wall Street Journal says Egypt needs a Pinochet – can it get away with that?
The Guardian at its most bitter. That said, I read the WSJ article expecting the quote to be out of context, and it's not. This paragraph, seemed almost to suggest that they were linking the words 'enlightened' and 'Pinochet' -- but read the article and draw your own conclusions.[Egypt] will do so again without more enlightened leadership that focuses on economic revival and a political transition to a system of checks and balances. Any transition government will no doubt seek money and oil from the Gulf states as well as an early deal with the International Monetary Fund to make up for Egypt's rapidly declining currency reserves.