Revolt/Revolution in Egypt

[ICantSpellDawg]

Be optimistic. This is good news. Low death tolls, modernity inspired protests, relatively benign response by Mubarak (honestly, our own govenment would and has cracked down harder). Infrequent mentions of "Islam" per se other than general "God is great" chants. During our own revolution, iterations on Gods greatness was a major rallying point for us as well.

I havn't seen the election of Hamas in Palestine to be a terrible evolution. I wan't the people to choose their govenment with some constitutional guarantees to prevent abuses like those that occur in Iran, Russia and China. If the movers can find a way to enshrine speach and assembly rights for both men and women into a constitution, we will have a winner.

Give Egyptians our support of their non-violent change and they will feel like part of the modern community. Don't withdraw aid or threaten to. I beleive that the military has some power here, but I beleive that their hands are tied at this point. Maybe they can make themselves useful and encourage Mubarak to leave for Saudi Arabia.