This is become a lesser of two evils type of thing. Mubarak isn't that great but he's kept Egypt from being taken over by the Muslim Brotherhood, who would be more than happy to turn Egypt into a theocracy. As with all things, there are more things going on here than what we see in the 'western' media. We've got legitimate protests, dictatorship like government, repressive tactics to suppress the protests, radical Muslims just itching to use the situation in their favor, and a threat of regional war in the background. Egypt is a critical balancing act at the moment and the wrong moves will be devastating.
> strength than the ones before. The Muslim Brotherhood has just come > out on the side of the protesters which is going to give them bigger > numbers to combat the police and military but will also make it easier > for Mubarak to paint the situation as a Brotherhood-inspired plot to > violent overthrow the elected government. > > It's looking like the government is scared, as they ought to be. They > reportedly fired tear gas at protesters who were in the street down on > their knees for evening prayer. That sort of thing isn't going to look > good. But El Baradei is under house arrest and Mubarak still has the > grudging support of a lot of leaders, the US amongst them. I wouldn't > put it beyond him to find a way through this while keeping power. > > Judah > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:333758 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
