After Tunisia, Egypt

Egypt is now following the model set by Tunisia and is in big turmoil.

I watched the special show Anderson Cooper hosted on CNN on Saturday (the 29th of January). The general trend is to support the will of the people, so follow the protesters and ask for an end of the dictatorship. They easily forgot that they (I totally group journalists and governments together here) have supported Mubarak for 30 years.

Moreover I thought the general tone was a bit too confident if not pretentious: again Cooper and few of his guests felt obliged to feel like they're having the perfect model of regime in US, and that at the end, what Egyptians want is the duplicate of the US. As if it were impossible to look at events without cultural judgments.

Then let's imagine that a democracy type of regime is installed in Egypt, and what if the people elect Muslim extremists, what would be the reaction of western countries? To still support the will of people?!

My point is that it is a bit too easy to support a regime in a country and then to condemn it because the people of this country are protesting against it. The versatility of both journalists and governments never cease to surprise me, especially when their only value consists of protecting their interests.