Very soon now there will be a lot of complaints that the President stayed with Mubarak too long and shortly thereafter a lot of complaints about how he abandoned Mubarak too quickly. How to play this is one of those hard questions which make me glad Barack has the job and I don't.
One of the reasons that we have so much trouble in the middle east is that it is there that one of our dearest values (democracy)
Yesterday, a young woman appeared on TV. She was one of the many people in Cairo who were cleaning up the streets from the previous nights demonstrations. It was spontaneous, on a volunteer basis.
When asked why she was doing it she said, "Because it is my country."
That seemed like a good sign in a situation that is, as they say, 'fraught with peril.'
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