The power-crazed Mubarak takes revenge
Things have fallen apart in Cairo this morning. It is so sad to watch the "pro-Mubarak" thugs (paid provocateurs, it seems) destroy the peaceful climate that prevailed in Tahrir Square. The TV coverage is good, and it illustrates how pathetic are the diehards of the goddamned Mubarak administration. (Not least when it showed the plainclothes-police riding through the Square on horses and beating bystanders -- there was one bastard on a freaking camel!)
Apparently even the Army has been co-opted by Mubarak: the tanks are fewer, and troops are doing nothing to stop the violence. All this evidently is to "justify" further repression by the security forces -- a vain effort, I think, which only risks polarizing Egyptian politics in the future.
In short, Mubarak will fall, sooner rather than later -- but this "deliberate decision to allow this" (as someone just said on CNN) makes it harder to organize a new government. Even the Army, which seemed a stabilizing element, now risks being discredited.
Apparently even the Army has been co-opted by Mubarak: the tanks are fewer, and troops are doing nothing to stop the violence. All this evidently is to "justify" further repression by the security forces -- a vain effort, I think, which only risks polarizing Egyptian politics in the future.
In short, Mubarak will fall, sooner rather than later -- but this "deliberate decision to allow this" (as someone just said on CNN) makes it harder to organize a new government. Even the Army, which seemed a stabilizing element, now risks being discredited.