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I've mostly grown tired of following the Egyptian political scene, because as the Iraq war became clearly a loss for the US and Bush resumed the Republican policy of sucking up to dictators around the world, US democratic pressure on Egypt ceased and actually reversed, which killed the political reforms that had been somewhat hopeful earlier, which then killed the economic reforms which depended on openness and transparency and competence, and which basically finally rendered Egypt politically boring, and not too optimistic. Right now is basically an intense crackdown on opposition media, though the labor movement seems to be finally getting somewhere.

Anyway, I saw this article written by a frequent writer for the Muslim Brotherhood, and it's certainly his best article in quite a long time. It's uplifting to see that there are still people promoting political reform here, and making well-reasoned arguments for why American policy-makers should care. As usual, you have to turn to the Muslim Brotherhood for any of this stuff.