I’m sure most of you have heard about the current revolution occurring in Egypt right now. Its people are rising up against their government, and calling for their president, Hosni Mubarak, to step down. While the world awaits the outcome of this uprising, I cannot help but thinking about the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the saying, “History repeats itself.” High inflation, high food prices, unhappy people, rioting, countless signs and symptoms of a revolution. And recently, we are seeing the same poor economic status, coupled with tyrannical leaders, leading to the riots in Tunisia, and now Egypt.
Hopefully, with a democratic government, Egypt can receive the responsive leadership it is searching for. A government that focuses on its people. I find it amazing that after studying the French Revolution from the eighteenth century, we can see history being made, in the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions of the 21st.
