Egypt: The Pundits Were Wrong

Our narrow-minded and ineffably smug pundits have been wrong, wrong, wrong about the Egyptian upsurge. Yes, I know, you’re shocked — shocked! They said it couldn’t and wouldn’t be done, and this “conventional wisdom“ was echoed by Hillary Clinton and her clueless colleagues — and yet the Egyptian people are doing it. The ruling party’s headquarters is on fire, the protesting youth are looting it, the “national curfew” is being joyfully and determinedly defied, and the police have been cleared off the street’s of Egyptian cities. The army — whose loyalties are not known — is moving in, and they are being greeted by the protesters as friends and liberators. Well, we’ll see about that.

The army is headed to the national state-controlled television station — a key weapon in any ruling class attempt to tamp down popular discontent — and the Interior Ministry.