[colinplamondon]

Of course they won't sleep well tonight- the last thing we want is a violent Islamic theocracy in Egypt. Egypt isn't Tunisia.

If this revolution goes through it's 50/50, liberal democracy (ElBaradei) vs Islamic theocracy (Muslim Brotherhood). It's that 50% chance that keeps us supporting Mubarak.

American foreign policy is deigned to secure American national security- we have our hands full in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, and Somalia. The last thing we need right now is to have to worry about Egypt as well.

[sasvari]

The last thing we need right now is to have to worry about Egypt as well.

the last thing you got now.

it was only a matter of time things started to blow off. if you look at the demographics in the arab countries (+ Egypt) and their lack of perspective, it is/was very careless to think it will continue just like the last decades.

[bilbo0s]

"...If this revolution goes through it's 50/50, liberal democracy (ElBaradei) vs Islamic theocracy (Muslim Brotherhood)..."

If that were the case, I think American leaders would sleep relatively well. The issue is that if those latest elections had not been rigged by Mubarak, then the Muslim Brotherhood would have won by a clear majority. I think the narrative that Western media is pushing about El Baradei being the future leader of Egypt is just the sort of somewhat fanciful thinking that has brought us to where we are today.

The power of technology only serves as a multiplier for the effectiveness of the people utilizing it. It does not change their hopes, or fears, or tastes, or biases.

It took me a long time to realize in my euphoria about the implications of widespread access to technology, that the Human Element is the weakness in the system...

Or its strength.