Scenes From The Protest In Cairo
Gordon Reynolds, our man in Cairo, sends along photos from yesterday's protest. (For real-time dispatches, follow him here.)
Egyptian police blocked both sides of Tahrir Square, pressing the protesters.
On the south end of the square, a military tank rolled into the crowd.
At the top of the tank an officer manned a fire hose that hammered down onto the protesters. But no one moved.
The fire tank had not advanced more than 30 yards before a young Egyptian sprinted up the front of the vehicle and scaled up the side.
When he reached the top of the tank, the officer manning the hose dropped the nozzle and jumped on the back of the protester. The two men toppled off the vehicle and onto the ground, where the man was taken away by other officers.
Gordon Reynolds is the pseudonym of a teacher in Cairo. Follow him on Twitter here.
The American government and media are going to the matt for Mubarak. Both NPR and NY TImes have limited coverage in order to downplay this story. Depressing, yet typical. The hypocrite Obama made no mention of Egypt last night. Like everything else with this administration, Obama makes rah rah speeches in Egypt about the importance of democratic reforms in the Arab world, but he really stands for nothing other than the status quo.
Leave Matt out of this.
Maybe Obama will perk up when there are some actual democratic reforms made, and not just rioting in the street in favor of expelling our (and Israel's) strongest ally in the Middle East.
There is also the idea that we have observed an inverse relationship between the degree to which America openly supports a revolutionary movement and the likelihood of success for that movement. In other words, the less we say the better…
Possibly because this revolution, if successful, could very well result in the installation of a regime that will be overtly hostile to our interests? (Muslim Brotherhood et. al.) I think "wait and see" is the right approach here.
Aren't you swallowing the propaganda there? Egypt isn't so backward and barbaric that a popular movement of young people (men and women) who are educated, literate and connected to the wider world by the internet, social media and mobile phones would stage organized, mass demonstrations in order to install a theocratic tyranny??!!