re: #24 Gus 802

“We don’t want to deal with Egyptian society with police tools.” — Omar Suleiman

So now the authoritarian rulers are warning, threatening, the Egyptian populace of an impending police crackdown? They are the definition of a dictatorship at this point. And regardless of the “known unknowns” of Egypt’s future the Mubarak regime will go down.

It’s too bad because I had a tiny inkling of hope with Omar Suleiman. Instead he’s already proven that he is no different than Mubarak.

And it felt like the protesters would have accepted Suleiman if Mubarak would have stepped down/fled the country.

Well, no point in making predictions at this point. I feel almost perverse in saying how fascinating this has been to watch from a distance when people are over there actually dying and fighting for their freedom…..but it has been an amazing couple of weeks.