Egyption Revolution successful, Mubarak steps down!!!!!!

Just switched to CNN (stupid BBC comercials when i turn on my TV). The Egyptions succeed!

BBC source

Heres the BBC source. will edit first Post

Yay, the worlds newest Anarchist country. Hopefully they will still keep the peace until things get sorted out.

I rarely watch news, just this time when I switched there this was announced.

What a weak president. I would've ordered the military to shoot into the crowds, spare no one, kill entire families, women and children first.

Tangmashi

What a weak president. I would've ordered the military to shoot into the crowds, spare no one, kill entire families, women and children first.

Tangmashi

I'm sure you would.

What a weak president. I would've ordered the military to shoot into the crowds, spare no one, kill entire families, women and children first.

Tangmashi

What a weak president. I would've ordered the military to shoot into the crowds, spare no one, kill entire families, women and children first.

Tangmashi

Now i understand why US founding father made the second amendment.

What a weak president. I would've ordered the military to shoot into the crowds, spare no one, kill entire families, women and children first.

Tangmashi

I want to be in Cairo right now. They're partying it up in the streets, so awesome

I would've ordered the military to shoot into the crowdsTangmashi

Just ignore Tangmashi, He's trying to hijack the thread.

I want to be in Cairo right now. They're partying it up in the streets, so awesome

osiris667

[QUOTE="osiris667"]

I want to be in Cairo right now. They're partying it up in the streets, so awesome

harry_james_pot

[QUOTE="osiris667"]

I want to be in Cairo right now. They're partying it up in the streets, so awesome

harry_james_pot

You're so damn lucky, it looks fxxckin great right now. All i can do is watch it on TV.

Just ignore Tangmashi, He's trying to hijack the thread.

lordreaven

Not true, I'm just high lighting how Mubarak will go down as one of the Worst Dictators in history. Not because he was brutal, but because he wasn't brutal enough.

What kind of dictator doesn't order his own soldiers to shoot wildly into protesters?

I'm not sure I'd call rioting and trashing the place a revolution.

Forgive me for not caring that much until now, but why were the egyptians protesting to get the president out?...tocool340

let the civil war begin. i've learned from many years of playing civ that there will always be a period of unrest following a revolt. it usually takes a few turns to settle down.

[QUOTE="tocool340"]Forgive me for not caring that much until now, but why were the egyptians protesting to get the president out?...Theokhoth

let the civil war begin. i've learned from many years of playing civ that there will always be a period of unrest following a revolt. it usually takes a few turns to settle down.

comp_atkins

[QUOTE="lordreaven"]

Just ignore Tangmashi, He's trying to hijack the thread.

Tangmashi

Not true, I'm just high lighting how Mubarak will go down as one of the Worst Dictators in history. Not because he was brutal, but because he wasn't brutal enough.

What kind of dictator doesn't order his own soldiers to shoot wildly into protesters?

We would have another suddam hussein on our hands then...

I'm not sure I'd call rioting and trashing the place a revolution.

Pirate700

I'm not sure I'd call rioting and trashing the place a revolution.

Pirate700

[QUOTE="Theokhoth"][QUOTE="tocool340"]Forgive me for not caring that much until now, but why were the egyptians protesting to get the president out?...tocool340

[QUOTE="Pirate700"]

I'm not sure I'd call rioting and trashing the place a revolution.

harry_james_pot

But the real crime is the fact these orders weren't carried out by all the police.

[QUOTE="Theokhoth"][QUOTE="tocool340"]Forgive me for not caring that much until now, but why were the egyptians protesting to get the president out?...tocool340

They felt compelled to do something after the revolt in Tunisia which took place a week earlier.

[QUOTE="comp_atkins"]

let the civil war begin. i've learned from many years of playing civ that there will always be a period of unrest following a revolt. it usually takes a few turns to settle down.

surrealnumber5

FINALY now we can do some Gameing

Now all the radical muslim extremists that hate America and Israel can come in!! Isn't Islam great?

halo1399

I'm not sure I'd call rioting and trashing the place a revolution.

Pirate700

wow, talk about clueless....

With not an ounce of sarcasm; congraulations to the people of Egypt. With dedication and persistance they have acheived their aim. Unfotunately, the peace treaty with Israel is now probably null and void. Extremist parties are waiting in the wings of Egypt. It's time for Israel to prepare for total war, hopefully this time they won't want to be caught out again by those who engulf her. Hopefully there is a situation where peace is reached, but albeit that seems highly unlikely (judging by past attacks on Israel). If need be, Israel must again show its firm hand.

What a weak president. I would've ordered the military to shoot into the crowds, spare no one, kill entire families, women and children first.

Tangmashi

Now all the radical muslim extremists that hate America and Israel can come in!! Isn't Islam great?

halo1399

without getting too depressed of having to argue with such a comment. i'm gonna quote an article from the Israeli newspaper The Haaretz.

"

The late Arab-American scholar Edward Said appears to have been right. We're all suffering from Orientalism, not to say racism, if the sight of an entire people throwing off the yoke of tyranny and courageously demanding free elections fills us with fear rather than uplifting us, just because they're Arabs…

People are scaring us with talk of an Islamist takeover of our big neighbor. The Muslim Brotherhood will certainly play an important role in any political democratic structure that emerges in Egypt, and that has to be dealt with. But then, we also have religious fundamentalists in the [Israeli] government. That is the price of a parliamentary democracy. And the previous U.S. administration was intimately linked to fundamentalists, but that's okay too, because evangelical Christians love Israel.

"

Read the rest of the article i linked if your interested or gonna bother reading it.

Really it comes down to this, put so eloquently by the L.A. Times

" The United States today has a clear choice, it can side with the people, or with the dictator"

With not an ounce of sarcasm; congraulations to the people of Egypt. With dedication and persistance they have acheived their aim. Unfotunately, the peace treaty with Israel is now probably null and void. Extremist parties are waiting in the wings of Egypt. It's time for Israel to prepare for total war, hopefully this time they won't want to be caught out again by those who engulf her. Hopefully there is a situation where peace is reached, but albeit that seems highly unlikely (judging by past attacks on Israel). If need be, Israel must again show its firm hand.

CannedWorms

don't worry the Christian Evangelicals can get into poltiics and shape national politics in many different ways (sometimes disasterous) in the West. Israel can have very conservative/extreme Jewish members get in, trumping "it's God's land, it's our land" the whole shebang.

and you wouldn't bat an eye.

I'm not a fan of the Muslim Brotherhood, but there is no getting around the fact, like it or not. pout about it or get all "war-hawk" chest-beating mode if you want. but religion plays a role in poltiics even if there is an explicit or technically a seperation of church and state.

What is far more important is what shape of democracy will Egypt form. and it looks like at the moment that it will be a liberal democracy. one where no single part can sit around forever.