The Constitution: Egypt's Job One

The Constitution: Egypt's Job One
William Fisher, Truthout: "Eleven days before he finally resigned, Hosni Mubarak may have had a chance to reverse his fortunes. Suddenly filled with a spirit of peacemaking and reconciliation, the president offered up a smorgasbord of 'reforms' he promised to make. Among them was amending several articles of the Egyptian Constitution. Calls for these amendments had been going on for years. So central were they to the political well-being of the Egyptian people that foreign powers - principally the United States - had intervened, privately and publicly, to persuade its most dependable Middle East ally to actually get something done."
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