On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Chuck Grimes <c123grimes at att.net> wrote:
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> Here's a quote from AJE on Egypt:
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> To describe blatant exploitation of the political system for personal gain
> as corruption misses the forest for the trees. Such exploitation is surely
> an outrage against Egyptian citizens, but calling it corruption suggests
> that the problem is aberrations from a system that would otherwise function
> smoothly. If this were the case then the crimes of the Mubarak regime could
> be attributed simply to bad character: change the people and the problems go
> away. But the real problem with the regime was not necessarily that
> high-ranking members of the government were thieves in an ordinary sense.
> They did not necessarily steal directly from the treasury. Rather they were
> enriched through a conflation of politics and business under the guise of
> privatization. This was less a violation of the system than business as
> usual. Mubarak's Egypt, in a nutshell, was a quintessential neoliberal
> state.
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> http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/201122414315249621.html
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> The whole article is worth reading because it links up all the connection
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