The good news is that the reports are, this morning, that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak may resign office as soon as today. The people, it seems, are winning. The power is/was with the people. That's pretty terrific. They wanted change, they pushed for it and now it seems it's coming.
The bad? The military is stepping in.
CAIRO (AP) Egypt's military announced on national television that it stepped in to "safeguard the country" and assured protesters that President Hosni Mubarak will meet their demands in the strongest indication yet that the longtime leader has lost power. In Washington, the CIA chief said there was a "strong likelihood" Mubarak will step down Thursday.
State TV said Mubarak will speak to the nation Thursday night from his palace in Cairo.
The military's dramatic announcement showed that the military was taking control after 17 days of protests demanding Mubarak's immediate ouster spiraled out of control.
We'll have to see where this goes. That may not be a necessarily bad thing, if it's only temporary.
Additionally, there's this Vice President and former army general and intelligence chief named Sulamein who is possibly/likely taking over in which case, the people may not completely have their country back yet. We'll have to wait this out and see if/how that works.
"...a democratic transfer of power is not what Omar Suleiman appears to have in mind.
Not only has Suleiman failed to engage seriously with any of the key demands of the opposition but he has begun to darkly warn that the "intolerable" protest action must be speedily brought to an end. And so the Administration has found itself having to scold and berate the man Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last weekend hailed as the leader to oversee the transition."
The Egyptian people made this happen, of course. It will now be up to them to push for serious, deep change that allows them to elect their own leaders. Their work is only just begun.
In the meantime, over here in the States, we need to push for our own change that gets us true, deep, stringent campaign finance reform so we get and keep corporate money and the wealthy people's money out of our government, along with all the lobbyists. That and we need to shorten our election/campaign season to 3 or 6 months so it isn't also corrupted.
All that, too, is up to us to push for.
I don't see it happening any time too soon, unfortunately.
Say, what time does NASCAR start, anyway?
Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110210/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599204814800;_ylt=AjP7hH.sGNFmNOh1OnhPTl.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTM4cWM0c2pyBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTEwMjEwL21sX2VneXB0BGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDMQRwb3MDNwRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRzbGsDc3VsZWltYW53aGVu
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