[lbo-talk] Dead-Enders on the Potomac

[Joanne Landy]

Editorial from Middle East Report
January 28 in Egypt was a rollercoaster of a day. The mass pro- democracy 
demonstrations were larger and more vehement than even
optimists had expected. In Cairo, the mood grew ever more jubilant as
signs multiplied that aging President Husni Mubarak would shortly join
his Tunisian counterpart in exile. In Washington, the White House
seemed on the verge of cutting Mubarak loose. Then Mubarak appeared on
Egyptian state television, and President Barack Obama on US
television, in quick succession to say essentially the same thing:
Democracy is great in theory, but if it will cause any disruption to
business as usual, we prefer dictatorship.

The editors of Middle East Report reflect on the "Dead-Enders on the
Potomac," now in Middle East Report Online:
http://www.merip.org/mero/mero012911.html
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Middle East Report Online is a free service of the Middle East Research
and Information Project (MERIP).
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