On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:39 AM, G Money <gm0n3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com>wrote: > >> >> But El Baradei is under house arrest and Mubarak still has the >> grudging support of a lot of leaders, the US amongst them. I wouldn't >> put it beyond him to find a way through this while keeping power. >> > > I'm not sure how strong the US support is for Mubarak. Egypt has been an > ally of convenience in the region for awhile now, mostly because of their > slightly-more-rational approach to Israel than most other countries. But if > the US felt a true democracy could actually take hold in Egypt.....i think > we'd kick Mubarak to the curb in a heart beat. > > But I know little to nothing about US relations with Egypt, other than what > i read in the papers.
Not hugely strong support but as it stands right now, The White House has come out against Mubarak shutting down the Internet and has pled with him to allow dissent and protest but Biden also said, yesterday, that Mubarak is not a dictator and when asked if Mubarak should resign he said: "No. I think the time has come for President Mubarak to begin to move in the direction that - to be more responsive to some... of the needs of the people out there." They are trying to walk a fine line and it's hard. You don't want to be seen as being overly meddlesome in the internal affairs of other countries but the US also has a tradition to uphold encouraging freedom and democracy. So, we'll see. Mostly I want this to all go down with as little violence as possible and I want to see the phone lines and Internet open up again so I can be sure that my friends are safe. Juda ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:333755 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
