Friday, February 18, 2011

Egypt vs. Animal Farm

One similarity that I have noticed between Animal Farm and Egypt is how they replaced one corrupt leader with one that ended up being worse.

In Animal Farm Mr. Jones, the caretaker, died in his sleep then he was replaced by Napoleon who became a political tyrant. The reason the animals did not like Mr. Jones was because he had control over the entire farm just because he could walk on two legs. As soon as Mr. Jones died the animals decided that they needed a leader, they did not know who because their leader in mind was Old Major who had also died. So the leader elected himself, the new leader of Animal Farm was Napoleon. Napoleon destroyed Animal Farm, he changed all the rules into rules that benefited him and killed anyone who crossed him path. This also happened with Egypt.

In Egypt the President was Anwar El Sadat. A brief history on him is: "Muhammad Anwar El Sadat was the third President of Egypt, serving from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981. He was a senior member of the Free Officers group that overthrew the Muhammad Ali Dynasty in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and a close confidant of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, whom he succeeded as President in 1970.
In his eleven years as president he changed Egypt's direction, departing from some of the economic and political principles of Nasserism by re-instituting the multi-party system and launching the Infitah.
He led the Yom Kippur War of 1973 against Israel, making him a hero in Egypt and, for a time, throughout the Arab World. Afterwards he engaged in negotiations with Israel, culminating in the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty. This won him the Nobel Peace Prize but also made him unpopular among some Arabs, resulting in a temporary suspension of Egypt's membership in the Arab League, and eventually his assassination." (Wikipedia)
After he was assassinated he was replaced by Hosni Mubarak who rained for thirty years causing pain and devastation to all his people.

My conclusion of these similar phenomenon's is that when a corrupt leader is needed to be replaced, the choosing of a new one needs to be carefully thought out. Just because one seems bad doesn't seem the next one could be worse.

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