re: #12 garhighway

I think the best possible outcome would have been for Mubarak to step down without the military forcing him to do it. But that just wasn’t in the cards. I’ll settle for this.

Agreed…

but Mubarak stepping down without a violent overthrow is a pretty big deal, considering that just a few weeks ago he reigned over a brutally oppressive police state with impunity. This is a huge signal to the people of the ME that they can oust repressive dictators through essentially non-violent action. Obviously, we don’t know the ultimate outcome, but this a huge deal and it is certainly possible - given how the military has acted so far and given their general popularity with most Egyptians - that the military will usher in a far superior government to the one which has been forced out.