Protesters watch Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s televised speech in Cairo on February 1. (REUTERS/Dylan Martinez)
–Men on horseback and camelback pour into Tahrir Square as pro- and anti- government protesters clash in central Cairo.
–Politically, everything hinges on the military.
Cable networks kept replaying a single shot from Tuesday’s protests in Egypt, a rooftop view of a massive crowd, where a banner was held aloft. “Yes We Can Too,” it read in English. It seemed to be a message directed at Barack Obama, who had used a similar slogan, and to the American people who had voted Obama into office. It was also a …
Last August, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen wrote a piece about the thanklessness of Arab populations around the world. “Say what you will about the Arab world, it’s hard to earn its gratitude,” he wrote, pointing to polls that showed declining support among Arab populations for Obama and his policies. In Cohen’s view, this …
About two years ago, President Obama tried to reset U.S. relations with the Muslim world. In a speech in Cairo, he offered a direct criticism of U.S. allies in the Middle East that regularly repress human rights, including Egypt. “Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away,” Obama announced. “America respects the right of …
As the New York Times is now reporting, “Thousands of people calling for the end of the 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak clashed with riot police in this Egyptian capital on Tuesday, on a day of some of the most serious civil unrest in recent memory here.”
Alexander Marquardt, a reporter for ABC News I knew on the 2008 campaign …
