What says you about the situation in EGYPT?

Kids on Twitter & Facebook are tired of tyrannical little men in Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Syria, ... Kids want Freedom and Democracy and the good life. Kids want the right to travel and live anywhere without regard to religion. Mubarack, Abdullah, Netanyahu, Karzai, ... are short timers. Their governments will be toppled.

Algeria, Yemen, Russia are also in upheaval.

Watch BBC. Cairo is a warzone

For AQSA.

It is the Tunisia upheaval moving to Egypt. Good on them. The US should support real democracy in those countries (not that there is all that much of it here).

I was talking to a Tunisian coworker today about the situation in his country. He seemed very uplifted by it, and I had to agree with him that the US too often supports corrupt regimes for reasons that are short sighted.

The Egyptian people need to be careful in what they wish for. The "people's" revolution in Iran toppled the Shah and what they got afterwards was worse. If the Muslim brotherhood gains power in Egypt, nobody wins. Women, Christians, and anybody else who isn't a religious nutcase will all suffer much more than they possibly do now.

If Islamic terrorists gain power in Egypt, they will tear up their treaty with Israel, and they will join the race with Iran to build the Islamic bomb. If the North African states fall to Islamic terrorists, then I think that it is only a matter of time before Pakistan does also.

All of the current despotic Arab states are united in their hatred of Israel and its bank, the US. Maybe it's time for the US to join the eventual victors and abandon its unblinking support for Israel's apartheid regime.

The US needs some fast and forward thinking policy makers right now. Somehow I doubt that the smartest voices are being heard.

The new generation won't wait for freedom and democracy in the Middle East. Mubarak, Netanyahu, Abdullah will be taken down. Facism and Zionism are dead.

Muslim Brotherhood in charge by the end of 2011, supported by OBL.

Obama's next move must be to shut off foreign aid, military aid, and overt operations in Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Yemen.

Truman made a fatal mistake after WWII by continuing US Imperialism in Asia and the Middle East. Asia happily kicked the US out of Asia by militarily defeating the US Army and is now free and prosperous. Obama should recognize Truman's error and latch on to the 2011 mideast revolution by ending the US Crusades against Islam and demanding full human rights for every person in every country without exception.

I agree with Smartguy , its a very scary situation with Iran most likely in the background trying to take advantage of people who want freedom but could end up with Islamic terrorist as its "dear leader".

The highest priority for Muslims is that every facist regime is immediately thrown out and replaced by people's governments with US freedom of speech, civil rights, freedom of religion, no apartheid, no concentration camps, etc. Muslims know their lands are 500 years behind the west. The regimes in Tel Aviv, Ankara, Cairo, Badgdad, Beirut, Damascus, Teheran, Kabul, etc. must go.

I have no idea why I am posting on here, but must admit I have been watching this situation for the last week and am somewhat inspired. Also, as much as I hate to admit it, this was what George Bush some what envisioned: Democracy taking hold in the middle east. Though Bush's ignorance of history would have told him that the US has toppled democratic governments in the past in favor of economic allies (yeah rip me for that one).

First off to watch this take place organically is fascinating to watch. Whether or not you like social networking sites, their power in these revolutions is amazing to watch (side note to my teacher friends a lesson of students writing tweets for the American revolution would be really good).

Second, who takes charge and what support do they receive from the US. If Elbaradi (may have spelled that wrong) takes power he will have international support and given his peace credentials I doubt he would make any move against Israel. Though there seems to be no real leader, and this does not seem to be driven by radical clerics. However, a repressed youth and struggling economy are breeding grounds for Islamic extremeists so you never know.

If the real desire of these movements is for more people to be involved in the government and open access to education, work, women's rights, and the such than the US should support every effort. There have been some protests in Yemen, and if Egypt does fall that fire will only spread to that country next. A small protest was quickly put down in Saudi Arabia, but it could catch fire after Yemen. Though that will be the hardest place to take over.

There is a final note though that Americans should think about. Many of these protesters are upset about the consilidation of wealth from oil. Could US oil prices jump from new leaders hoping to increase their profits to fund their new governments and projects? How will the state department respond then? How will you?

I hope Obama cuts relations with dictators and tyrants. Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, Israel, Turkey, Saudi are the worst. Ask any Arab or Muslim at your job or school and they will say it same.

bush contributed in two ways: he made that speech urging popular uprisings and democracy in the region and he got the world into a terrible recession that created the conditions for these uprisings. be careful what you wish for. obama in one day with some measured remarks from gibbs/clinton, including a remark about cutting u.s. aid, and maybe some direct communication got mubarak to dismiss his gov't and get the latter talking reform, but there has to be a real democracy there. the question is whether that means muslim brotherhood or a genuinely reform oriented democracy with strong economic moves to provide jobs to millions. my suspicion would be that what they get, with or without mubarak, is a democracy with economically liberal imf style programs, which will just further alienate the tens of millions of poor Egyptians. But it's a genuinely stirring moment and one that must be followed up on with swift actions by the United States, because such opportunities are very rare. When you're on the razor's edge, decisive actions are needed.

What is F-Israel? I can't find that on the map.

Is that next to F-Egypt. Is this like Middle Earth?

Please, I need guidance here.

Mubarak is a tyrant, and it's an embarrassment to our nation's ideals that we support his regime. It is captivating to see Egyptians in the streets demanding reforms in open defiance of the state (as it was Tunisians, the Lebanese, Ukranians, the Sudanese, etc.).

Of course this is where realpolitik comes into play. Reforms do not mean western-style democracy. Democracy in the MidEast does not even mean democracy per se. Take a look at Iraq, Afghanistan, the Palestinian Authority, even Lebanon. Popular elections did not make the leaders of these nations more accountable or transparent, or give their citizens more freedom, better standards of living and opportunity, etc. It didn't end corruption, cronyism, injustice or violence.

I'm all for these people taking their nation back from autocrats and dictators, but history tells us the status quo is unlikely to change.

It gets complicated after the revolution. Look what's happening in Ukraine. We want democracy, but once we get it, we are intimidated. In the US we had the growing pains of the Articles of Confederation ( heed well you states rights extremists). Luckily we got our Shiite together with the Constitution.

I'm all for replacing Mubarak and am inspired and fascinated by the Egyptians' perseverance (Iranians, take note.). But it also gets tricky; who comes in after Mubarak could be better, but could also be much worse.

This is a problem that many countries face with revolutions. Look at the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution. (I'm not counting the American Revolution because that was a different beast altogether -- a war for independence from a country which it was geographically separated from.) While Mubarak has been by no means a wonderful or responsive leader, Egypt is one of the only Arab countries with a tenuous peace with Israel, and that counts for something.

Here's to the Egyptian people demanding a government they deserve.