Comment
on article by Nour Yousef on October 26, 2013
http://arabist.net/blog/2013/10/25/bwihr3hiyhxkfjojlvopn31zp1mlnm#commenting
To
describe Beblawy's government as "trembling hands" is a
description that eludes precision, in fact, can anyone else do more to "stop
everything from getting worse" as you quoted? I think not, but I
will give reasons that do not mean that I support him, or adversaries in anyway.
First
of all, does he have a mandate to make Egypt a better place to live? He
certainly wants to, but does he have the mandate to do so?
A
mandate is given by the nation, not by a part of the nation. A nation is
defined as a body of men, or society, somehow organized, come together and by
democratic proceedings, vest power to some men to take favorable construction
to be put on those proceedings to better their life. Only then the government
has a mandate by which it can enforce stability. Depriving a part of the
society you assume of their aspirations, always lead to unrest.
A
mandate given, approved or supported by a part of a claimed society, is a first
step into dividing the society into two societies after a period of unrest.
Rules
are made to obtain results, given some small power, you can bend the rules, but
then you never reap the results, next you lose whatever power you enjoyed,
remember we have been there shortly before.