America's Middle Eastern Puppet Regimes Are Falling Like Dominoes

[HarveyDarkey]

The images from the protests in Cairo, Egypt today are stunning. See this, this and this.

President Mubarak's family has already fled the country.

As Raw Story notes:

Demonstrators calling for economic and political reforms broke through police barriers and began marching in Cairo's streets.

Protesters gathered outside the Supreme Court in downtown Cairo and held large signs that read "Tunisia is the solution" amid massive police deployment, an AFP correspondent said.

Chanting "Down with Mubarak" -- in reference to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak who has been in power for three decades -- they broke through several police cordons and began marching towards Tahrir Square, in scenes seldom witnessed in Egypt.

Others shouted "Tunisia is not better than Egypt" as the crowds began to swell.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/01/americas-arab-puppet-regimes-are.html

[Pharaoh]

1. Woot!!!

[DonCoquixote]

2. Let's hope

Al Qaida does not leap on this..

Remember, the Menshiviks who came to power in the Russian revolution were not the nasty types, but the Bolshiveiks who killed them off.

[MattBaggins]

3. This could get ugly

The new governments might be just as bad.

[Nevernose]

5. Iran, for example

Imagine a new government run by bellicose fundamentalists.

[Malikshah]

7. The History of Egypt is quite different than that of Iran.

Not the best of analogies.

I would keep my eyes on Jordan, Yemen, Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. Still, Egypt has forever defied predictions and gone "its own way." As the unspoken "head" of the Arab world (al-Azhar, Egyptian cinema, etc) it will indeed be interesting to see what happens.

[Nevernose]

9. I wasn't thinking so much in terms of Muslim/Middle Eastern

I wasn't thinking so much in terms of Muslim/Middle Eastern when I made the Iranian analogy as I was thinking "trading one shitty government for another." Or maybe "trading a shitty quasi-secular government for a shitty religious government."

We're actually going on vacation in Tunisia for a couple of days this summer (of course, that assumes things calm down).

[MattBaggins]

8. Exactly

If the Muslim brotherhood were to win out in Egypt it wouldn't be any better than what we have now.

[moondust]

6. Exactly.

Theocracies.

[Better Believe It]

4. A bit premature. They haven't fallen yet. But stayed tuned.