Tunesia, Egyt and now Yemen: a domino effect in the Middle East?

Finn dAbuzz actually said: Check out history.

Actually can save money on a fox (or news ltd) subscription by simply imagining what Rupert wants you to think.

What they have in Egypt now is a military dictatorship that wont be one bit better than the previous government.

What they have in Egypt now is a military dictatorship that wont be one bit better than the previous government. Dont look for a democracy anytime soon!

if they follow the Pakistan model we will see a series of weak governments with the military backstopping them and working to slow down the drive towards democracy.

There'll be movies made, tales woven about some American hero or heroes a la Pat Tillman/Jessica Lynch, who did such and such to help the Egyptian/Tunisian/[fill in the blank] people throw off their chains.

Jessica Lynch

Initial media reports on Lynch's recovery in Iraq were incorrect. Lynch, along with major media outlets, fault the U.S. government for creating the story as part of the Pentagon's propaganda effort.[2][3][4][5] Jim Wilkinson is credited for fabricating the government narrative.[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Lynch

It really is sickening, isn't it

George wrote:

Why isn't the Egyptian military getting their props?

they are in my circle of Egyptian dancers and musicians - they've been posting
positive stuff about the Egyptian military for weeks (still are)

I feel dumb, but what does "getting their props" mean - excuse idiom-challenged
antipodeaness.

What they have in Egypt now is a military dictatorship that wont be one bit better
than the previous government. Dont look for a democracy anytime soon!

Here's what I don't get.

Why isn't the Egyptian military getting their props?

In an interesting and even ironic way, the resistance in Egypt can be traced back to President George W. Bush and the war in Iraq. Protesting against Bush's violent means of spreading democracy, a loosely formed group organized the largest demonstrations in Egypt's history around the March 20, 2003, invasion. They eventually became known as Kefaya, meaning "Enough." Adopting the mission to bring down Mubarak and restore power to the Egyptian people, Kefaya held regular protests that called for the end of the emergency law, more freedom for the Egyptian people, and better handling of the economy -- essentially similar demands seen in Tahrir Square today. After heavy activity in 2004 and 2005, the movement fizzled due to apparent conflicts between the Islamic and liberal activists.

Out of Kefaya grew the April 6 Youth Movement whose members and affiliates played an integral role in this year's #Jan25 demonstrations. The group formed in order to support workers in the industrial town of Mahalia al-Kubra during an April 6, 2008, strike, organizing primarily through a Facebook group. Inheriting from Kefaya the lofty goal of displacing Mubarak, the group swelled to 70,000 young, highly educated and generally affluent activists by 2009.

After garnering international media attention for the heated debates held on the page, the April 6 movement also caught the attention of the U.S. State Department when protests began this year. A diplomatic wire released by WikiLeaks shows that American officials thought little of the Facebook uprising. It reads: "April 6's stated goal of replacing the current regime with a parliamentary democracy prior to the 2011 presidential elections is highly unrealistic, and is not supported by the mainstream opposition." Combined with the forces of other movements, though, the impact of the April 6 Youth Movement is nothing short of historic.

The following cast of characters -- many affiliated with the April 6 and Kefaya groups -- represent the critical appendages of the movement's anatomy. Working together as a body of dissent, they turned Egypt's uprising into a revolution. Salon