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Protesters shout anti-goverment slogans during a demonstration in Cairo, Saturday. Thousands of angry Egyptians rallied in central Cairo to demand that President Hosni Mubarak resign and call on troops to come over to their side despite Mubarak's use of tactics reminiscent of Iran's in 2009.
Asmaa Waguih/Reuters
Focusing on terrorists have victimized the Egyptian people.
President Mubarak in fearing more violence for the West and being a good friend to the West asked too much of his people.
Obama to Review Mideast Policy After Egyptian Protests (click title to entry - thank you)
Friday, January 28, 2011
Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- After decades of backing authoritarian regimes in the Mideast and North Africa as bulwarks against Muslim extremism, the U.S. faces an urgent challenge as popular uprisings sweep the region: how to defend U.S. economic and security interests while supporting democratic values....
President Mubarak was acting to protect the Egyptian people by also protecting the West. His policies went to far.
By Massoud A. Derhally - Jan 29, 2011 8:29 AM ET Egypt is reaching a “tipping point,” opposition campaigner Mohamed ElBaradei said in an interview with Monocle. “People are desperate and anxious for change to happen overnight,” ElBaradei, the former chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said in the London-based monthly’s February edition. “I see that approaching. People say Egyptians are patient, but you go around the streets of Cairo and you’ll see that the tipping point coming.” The West is “losing every ounce of credibility when it comes to convincing people here that it is serious about their basic values: democracy, freedom, justice, rule of law,” said ElBaradei, 68. “That fuels extremism. The West doesn’t realize that stability is not based on shortsighted security measures; stability will only come when people are empowered, when people are able to participate.”...