[I got this late last week from my dad, who is in Amman]: It is quite apparent that Mubarak had been sacrificed by the US administration to save the allied military. The military had to be taken kicking and screaming to, at last today, to oust the Mubarak installed shafic government. Can you imagine that the shithead Abul Geit was thrown out only to day as the Shafic govt was sacked.
It is evident to me that the military will continue to stall on real changes and continue this turtle pace cosmetic reform and will try to hand over the least possible amount of reforms, trying to keep the uprising semi content. The uprising has not properly focused its demands and never developed into a revolution that exactly knows what it wants and how to get there. It is going to be a long long delayed implementation of social reforms and freedoms before the upper rich Egyptian class will give up any of its privileges and power, trying to hold to gains acquired during the Mubarak regime.
It is a known by now that the Egyptian Islamic brotherhood is in bed with the military regime. Other opposition parties that were licensed are prone to make deals with the military. It looks like that the military is speeding up the upcoming election in an intent to give the brotherhood and few others the advantage over the Egyptian-youth leadership, especially that the brotherhood is the better organized and better mobilized, than the burgeoning uprising.
Re Libya..Some satellite commentators are pointing out that the US has been for some time on excellent terms with Gaddafi, even at the level of intelligence sharing, and as such are not serious about ousting Gaddafi, though they will continue to make limited moves pretending to; and Gaddafi will continue to claim that Libya's enemies are Al Qaeda and the west!! The theater of the absurd.!
It is evident to me that the military will continue to stall on real changes and continue this turtle pace cosmetic reform and will try to hand over the least possible amount of reforms, trying to keep the uprising semi content. The uprising has not properly focused its demands and never developed into a revolution that exactly knows what it wants and how to get there. It is going to be a long long delayed implementation of social reforms and freedoms before the upper rich Egyptian class will give up any of its privileges and power, trying to hold to gains acquired during the Mubarak regime.
It is a known by now that the Egyptian Islamic brotherhood is in bed with the military regime. Other opposition parties that were licensed are prone to make deals with the military. It looks like that the military is speeding up the upcoming election in an intent to give the brotherhood and few others the advantage over the Egyptian-youth leadership, especially that the brotherhood is the better organized and better mobilized, than the burgeoning uprising.
Re Libya..Some satellite commentators are pointing out that the US has been for some time on excellent terms with Gaddafi, even at the level of intelligence sharing, and as such are not serious about ousting Gaddafi, though they will continue to make limited moves pretending to; and Gaddafi will continue to claim that Libya's enemies are Al Qaeda and the west!! The theater of the absurd.!