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Where is our Leader?

Magdy Malak

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Saturday ,11 May 2013

Where is our Leader?
Morsi hasn’t established a good atmosphere for any national dialogue. On the contrary, he divided all communities, all people, and all nations towards his policies. Even the Salafis turned against him. Why? Because Morsi is a Dictator. We now see what a real dictatorship is. 
 
If we recall the actions of Mubarak during his last 10 years of presidency, we will find that the main trait in both leaders is stubbornness. Mubarak was stubborn, and as is Morsi. Mubarak was a Dictator, and I can surely say now Morsi is as well. Mubarak was a tyrant, and Morsi’s recent actions lead me to believe his is a tyrant as well. Mubarak put his opposition in jail, and the same Morsi is doing now. 
 
If we want to differentiate between the regime leaded by Morsi, and the previous regime leaded by Mubarak, we will find Morsi’s worse. Morsi is following his guide Morshed, but Mubarak was following his mind and logic. Does anyone think that a President could be a subordinate and be successful in leading Egypt? This thought is vain! 
 
Last week I read an article from an opposition party approving the foreign policies set by Morsi. He was saying, “Morsi could get rid of American domination” but on the contrary, I disagree, and furthermore, this theory is incorrect. Morsi has done exactly the same as Mubarak did; he visited Russia, China, and Brazil. The only difference between Morsi and Mubarak regarding foreign policy is that Morsi visited Iran and Pakistan whereas Mubarak did not. 
 
If the opposition considers visiting those two countries a great accomplishment, they are living in a delusion. Visiting Iran led the whole Golf Area to become upset with Egypt. So ergo we are allowing the loss of five countries in return for one. Is this a success? 
 
Morsi wants to just change the appearance, but not the core. From my perspective, you cannot change the look of your policies, without changing the policies themselves and changing the core of the economy. If you want to be independent, you need to strengthen your economy. And strengthening your economy doesn’t come by visiting enemies or friends. It comes by investments, security, a sound judicial system, and we need to ask ourselves, “Is this available?’’
 
I can now tell that Morsi and the opposition are both failures. Not one of them could satisfy the nation, or give them what they need, or furthermore, meet their expectations. We are living in chaos. 
 
I believe that we need a new leader, and a new election. It doesn’t matter if the election will be tomorrow, but our chance will be in the upcoming election. Until then, we should combine all opposing parties into one and find a good leader to lead this country, because if we didn’t do so, Egypt will be finished. Egypt doesn’t deserve that. The Egyptians deserve a good life with a good leader.