The AmeriKan media seem sad about it.
"Exultation in Egypt, and a question: What’s next?; In a stunning turnabout, Mubarak abruptly resigns and leaves Cairo" by David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times / February 12, 2011
CAIRO — An 18-day-old revolt led by the young people of Egypt ousted President Hosni Mubarak yesterday, shattering three decades of political stasis here and upending the established order of the Arab world....
Good, because it needed upending.
He was toppled by a radically new force in regional politics, a largely secular, nonviolent, youth-led democracy movement that brought Egypt’s liberal and Islamist opposition groups together for the first time under its banner....
Then why does my Zionist War Media keep insinuating Islamic extremists coming to power?
The Muslim Brotherhood, the outlawed Islamist movement that until 18 days ago was considered Egypt’s only viable opposition, said it was merely a supporting player in the revolt.
And since there are questions about the Brotherhood it proves this was a TRUE PEOPLES REVOLT no matter how much the AmeriKan media is spinning.
The Brotherhood, which was slow to follow the lead of its youth wing into the streets, has said it will not field a candidate for president or seek a parliamentary majority in the expected elections....
Then all the huffing and puffing from the Zionist press is nothing but hot gas, 'eh?
Mubarak’s fall removed a bulwark of US foreign policy in the region and left the United States, its Arab allies, and Israel pondering whether the Egyptian military, which has vowed to hold free elections, will give way to a new era of democratic dynamism or to a treacherous lurch into instability or Islamist rule that Mubarak had suppressed for so long.
What did I just say a few spaces above?
The upheaval comes less than a month after a sudden youth revolt in nearby Tunisia toppled another enduring Arab strongman, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. And last night some of the revelers celebrating in the streets of Cairo marched under a Tunisian flag and pointed to the surviving autocracies in Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Yemen.
“We are setting a role model for the dictatorships around us,’’ said Khalid Shaheen, 39. “Democracy is coming.’’
President Obama praised the Egyptian revolution.
“Egyptians have made it clear that nothing less than genuine democracy will carry the day,’’ he said. “It was the moral force of nonviolence, not terrorism and mindless killing, that bent the arc of history toward justice once more.’’
This from a guy pocking the Pakistani mountains with Predator drone strikes and presiding over the continuing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Mubarak era ended without the stability and predictability that were the hallmarks of his tenure.
Yeah, too bad it's over, huh?
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I just want you to know I'm having a hard time reading this slop these days, readers.
"Mubarak’s reign ended by drive for a legacy of stability" by Michael Slackman, New York Times / February 12, 2011
Hosni Mubarak’s legacy was supposed to be stability....
But history upended Mubarak, and his fall came, as suddenly and surprisingly as his unlikely elevation to the presidency 30 years ago.
Which again indicates no western intelligence involvement.
Oh, they will try to co-opt and manipulate the movement and spin this as some sort of victory, but it was not born out of USraeli interests in regime change, sorry.
Mubarak’s Egypt rose up against him. The streets and squares filled with hundreds of thousands of protesters day and night until he could no longer deny the inescapable conclusion that in order to restore stability, he needed to go.
One wonders when brain-dead AmeriKans are going to do this. Where are the kids?
It was an unexpected epitaph for a military man who until recently was revered — and reviled — as Egypt’s modern-day pharaoh....
He failed this time using tactics that had so long sustained his rule: the ability to divide and conquer the masses, to anesthetize the population with promises, pay raises, subsidies, and government reshuffling....
Gee, that seems awfully familiar to me.
During his tenure, Egypt’s population doubled to more than 80 million. Life grew harder as the social contract between the state and citizens broke down.
Recognize the feeling, American?
Satellite television and the Internet meant the state could no longer control what people knew, and so its narrative was often ignored or even mocked.
Ah, yes, the FAILURE of the AmeriKan newspaper industry.
The gap between rich and poor became greater, and politics became less ideological and more about common demands: for freedom, democracy, social justice, rule of law, and economic equality.
Here in AmeriKa it is corporations that call the shots.
Mubarak’s government struggled to prevent people’s economic dissatisfaction from becoming political, but in the end, that failed too. As he feared, the Egyptian people blamed the entire system.
But perhaps most of all, Mubarak’s concept of stability — one that was embraced by Washington — in the end proved the ultimate destabilizer, specialists in Egypt said.
Facing a police state that choked off competing ideas and ideologies, preventing free elections and manipulating the state media, the public found the only way to achieve its goals was by taking to the streets, occupying the symbolic heart of the nation, Tahrir Square, and refusing to go home.
There HAS TO BE a LESSON for you in there, Americans -- and the AmeriKan government s well!!!
Mubarak leaves office now with the country’s future more uncertain than at any time since assassins killed President Anwar el-Sadat, elevating Mubarak to the presidency.
Gee, CUI BONO, 'eh?
If stability was to be the hallmark of his reign, that very goal proved to be at least part of his undoing.
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Related: In last hours, Mubarak made desperate attempts to stay
