Mubarak Fires Cabinet And Inflames Protestors

Hosni Mubarak is further backing himself into a corner.  This is moving like lightning.  I would be surprised to see him last beyond the weekend.

I also find the remarks from Hillary Clinton and President Obama asking for Mubarak to embrace reforms as nothing more than hollow political posturing.   This is a game of political chess and the U.S. is trying to ensure it ends up on the right side of any new government if one emerges.  Mubarak is on the U.S. payroll and receives billions in aid.  Even while he murders and steals from his own people.  If Washington really cared about reform in Egypt or the Egyptian people, they wouldn’t have propped up a corrupt authoritarian regime for the last thirty years.  A regime with the jack boot on the neck of tens of millions of Egyptians.