Nile-ism
February 10, 2011

After a tremendous build up of expectation and excitement, H. Mubarak dug his own grave deeper tonight with his speech to the nation. He acted as a patriarchal father and pretended that he was in the process of helping the nation transition through constitutional changes before the September elections. Thoroughly out of touch with the millions of young Egyptians who are well educated and who want change, this man is still in denial. He is worried about the economy but he's hindering the nation from moving on to its next
stage of development.

Congressman Ron Paul had a sharp rebuke to our administration and to previous ones that supported this dictator. He points out that we wasted our millions/billions of dollars because it didn't buy us "security" in the final analysis. He repeated his call to bring the troops home from Afghanistan. For Paul, the founding fathers did not want us involved in these entangling alliances and we need to stop our interventionism.

An Egyptian interviewed on CNN remarked that President Mubarak is not using his brain. He proceeds as if he didn't have huge crowds screaming for him to leave.

Why did Leon Panetta release a statement earlier today that Mubarak was going to step down tonight? What is wrong with American intelligence? This continues the murky and muddled understanding that our government has of the inner dynamics of the Egyptian government.

(Apologies for the layout/format problems of the post. Will try to correct asap)