Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Wael Ghonim: is now really pissing me off

I am told he tweeted this:  ""international business community have a great role in making our revolution successful."  Oh, yeah.  The same international business community that supported and enriched Mubarak and his cronies are going to make your "revolution" successful.  Oh, yeah. Leave it to defense contractors and MNCs to help the Egyptians as they have since Sadat regime.  I also read his notes for the meeting with the military junta: they struck me as utterly giddy and rather foolish.  Some say: but he is sincere.  He may.  You can be sincerely wrong and off-track.  So what?  Also, I have had it with this ultra-patriotism from Egypt.  I prefer the low-key patriotism of Tunisians, to be honest, pyramids and sphinx notwithstanding.  Egyptians patriots have been reminding me a lot about the Lebanese nationalists lately, and that is not a compliment to either peoples.