Democracy has come to the Middle East

Today I had my last accounting class for the program. I thought that the test was rather easy, which means I did really good or really bad. Really though a celebration is in order for getting marketing out of the way. I still have a Japanese final and a marketing final for next week. I tell you, the fun never stops. The word in class is that there is a midterm for my finance class that is going to be take home over my vacation (8 days until I hop a plane back to Chicago).

In this program many of the assignments that they give us are online. Our marketing teacher forgot to upload our assignment for today. This guy is a real piece of work; he has not shown up for two classes (in each case he was called by one of the students). We have not gotten an assignment back, and he has even admitted that he hasn’t read them. This has been the only class that I feel I’m getting nothing out of it, it isn’t that he doesn’t know the material it is just that I feel that he is only teaching to do consulting work and teaching is just bothering him.

In Egypt they had democratic elections. I’m sure that Bush was really happy about that, except like some people have predicted the Muslim Brotherhood won five times more seats than they have. All of the members of the Muslim Brotherhood were to be write in candidates. I praise Egypt for having elections, next time try for better turn out and freer elections without any political parties being banned. Has corruption decreased because of the elections, no, but now the government is five times closer to being hostile towards Israel and the United States.

Our glorious leader Bush has touted the fact that he knows that a democratic Middle East will be peaceful and will praise human rights. Drawing from what has happened in the United States how can he expect others to follow our example. I know that his original reasoning was the Weapons of Mass Destruction, that was proven wrong. Ties to terrorists? Nope. Spreading democracy in the Middle East to make it peaceful and respectful to human rights? Based on the United States, this isn’t going to happen. Egypt has spoken, no there is not a majority fundamentalists in government, but even the Fundamentalist Republicans were a minority at one time, so were the Nazis. I still can not get over the fact that I feel George Bush got us into this war because he thought it was a game that he could play for real.