To be fair, I agree fully with O\u2019Reilly on not blaming our intelligence services or the Obama administration on this. And I do also agree that it\u2019s in our interests to get \u201cthe best people\u201d in power as possible. But I also agree with the comments of Bruce Reidel at the Daily Beast<\/a>:<\/p>\n The short answer is it is not our decision<\/span> to make. Egyptians will decide the outcome, not Washington. We should not try to pick Egyptians\u2019 rulers. Every time we have done so, from Vietnam\u2019s generals to Afghanistan\u2019s Hamid Karzai, we have had buyer\u2019s remorse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n And I think suggesting that WW III is in the works is just another example of Bill\u2019s fine \u201craving right wing fear-filled windbaggery,\u201d for lack of a better term. And don\u2019t even get me started on Glenn Beck.In any case, there are many more intelligent voices out there, including Lebanon\u2019s Ya Libnan news service, discussing three possible futures for Egypt<\/a>, Aljazeera<\/a>\u00a0English, and individuals like Jami Miscik (ex-CIA), writing for Fortune magazine<\/a>, who writes:<\/p>\n We were amazed that almost every Egyptian in authority that we spoke with didn\u2019t see this coming. Last week on Tuesday night, after the protests had begun and we crawled around roadblocks to get to a dinner with prominent Egyptians, many of those who showed up were certain that the protests would peter out in the next few hours. I thought, how surreal this was as they could be looking into the precipice of their own privileged positions ending.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
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