Mubarak is still in power, so they're still upset. He's sorta dodged the call, he said he would delegate some amount of power to Suleiman, but it's not clear how much.

Basically, we have to watch the generals and see what happens.

The Supreme Council of Armed forces has pledged to uphold the people's rights.

Another statement by the army is supposed to happen in a couple hours, according to Al Jazeera.

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... Why is the army suddenly backing Mubarak now?

EDIT: Scratch that, Mubarak has stepped down and the army has taken over, apparently

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More specifically Omar Suleiman will be the head-honcho from now. This increases chances of stabilization, but decreases chances of democratization.

If you would earn 80$ a month, with prices of products only about 4x times lower than those in Europe, you'd be pissed off, too.

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I am not saying that the Egyptians do not have a legitimate beef. I am saying that the protesters already won. They are getting a new president in September and the next guy will almost assuredly listen to his people more.

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Zeph is still awesome though. ~Rival
I love you so much right now Zeph. ~Yoshi
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Zeph has left me inspired. ~Mathias
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WE ARE SORRY THAT WE ARE NOT AS PERFECT AS YOU, ZEPH! ~Stufflikehearts
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But will the new person be a supporter of ours (US) or not? This is what my roommate is concerned with. Egypt is apparently our only support in the Arab world.

Omar Suleiman is probably the most pro-US guy in all of Egypt. US government is likely the force that pressed on most for him becoming the new leader.

So if he remains in power after this year, and the opposition in Egypt is weak and fractured at the moment, Egypt will likely become even more pro-US.

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He doesn't trust that guy because of certain supporters he has.

There's not much I can say, other than what I already have. His entire career proves he is very loyal to the US, almost frighteningly so. Your friends concerns are, in my opinion, unfounded.

Radical Egyptian religious groups, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, are what the US government should worry about, but those are currenntly far too weak to gain reign in Egypt.

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I think that brotherhood is who he's concerned about. He said they were supporters of his.

Well except, the Saudis, the UAE, Jordan and Morocco (fun fact first country to acknowledge US sovereignty and one of the first to establish a bilateral treaty).

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Zeph do you ever tire of being perfect? ~Dave
Zeph is still awesome though. ~Rival
I love you so much right now Zeph. ~Yoshi
I love you Zeph. You and your simple yet humorous topic-breakers. ~Coos
Zeph has left me inspired. ~Mathias
Zeph is so awesome even soulless bits of binary worship him. ~Wizard
Curse YOU ZEPH! CURSE YOU! ~JesusChrist
WE ARE SORRY THAT WE ARE NOT AS PERFECT AS YOU, ZEPH! ~Stufflikehearts
Zepherin for forum queen and writer of the best seller "how to screw your brethen up for dummies". ~ The Mirak

No religious groups support him, maybe the Copts slightly out of fear of Muslims, he's anti-islamic and is a supporter of secularization.

Saudis aren't really that much pro-US, their elites are split. Once King Abdullah dies they might turn anti-US depending on who succeeds.

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Rival: Except we are their biggest customer. Also they think their neighbors are crazy.

On the Egypt front looks like everyone is going home. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12445192

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Zeph do you ever tire of being perfect? ~Dave
Zeph is still awesome though. ~Rival
I love you so much right now Zeph. ~Yoshi
I love you Zeph. You and your simple yet humorous topic-breakers. ~Coos
Zeph has left me inspired. ~Mathias
Zeph is so awesome even soulless bits of binary worship him. ~Wizard
Curse YOU ZEPH! CURSE YOU! ~JesusChrist
WE ARE SORRY THAT WE ARE NOT AS PERFECT AS YOU, ZEPH! ~Stufflikehearts
Zepherin for forum queen and writer of the best seller "how to screw your brethen up for dummies". ~ The Mirak

Meanwhile Algeria seems to be stirring up,not as much as Egypt did, but still.

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Yeah but Algeria always seams to be in a state of cranky.

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Zeph do you ever tire of being perfect? ~Dave
Zeph is still awesome though. ~Rival
I love you so much right now Zeph. ~Yoshi
I love you Zeph. You and your simple yet humorous topic-breakers. ~Coos
Zeph has left me inspired. ~Mathias
Zeph is so awesome even soulless bits of binary worship him. ~Wizard
Curse YOU ZEPH! CURSE YOU! ~JesusChrist
WE ARE SORRY THAT WE ARE NOT AS PERFECT AS YOU, ZEPH! ~Stufflikehearts
Zepherin for forum queen and writer of the best seller "how to screw your brethen up for dummies". ~ The Mirak

So, the Iranians are pretty pissed off, huh?

Yup that virus fucked them. I blame the Russians.

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Zeph do you ever tire of being perfect? ~Dave
Zeph is still awesome though. ~Rival
I love you so much right now Zeph. ~Yoshi
I love you Zeph. You and your simple yet humorous topic-breakers. ~Coos
Zeph has left me inspired. ~Mathias
Zeph is so awesome even soulless bits of binary worship him. ~Wizard
Curse YOU ZEPH! CURSE YOU! ~JesusChrist
WE ARE SORRY THAT WE ARE NOT AS PERFECT AS YOU, ZEPH! ~Stufflikehearts
Zepherin for forum queen and writer of the best seller "how to screw your brethen up for dummies". ~ The Mirak

There seems to be a very big rash of censorship by middle eastern governments. First Iran now Eygpt, I wonder if these are the only incidents, or the only ones that have managed to get out before the governments locked down on the information flow...

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And God looked down upon the mortals and said: "...wtf are you noobs doing on my lawn?"

That's the problem with worshipping the god of schemes. You never quite know whether or not you're being divinely blessed, screwed over royally, or both at the same time.

Censorship in these countries is news? Not really.

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Escape will make me God.

but locking down information seams to have backfired and all the middle eastern nations are looking at egypt with concern.

Well except a few regimes where people are generally pleased.

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Zeph do you ever tire of being perfect? ~Dave
Zeph is still awesome though. ~Rival
I love you so much right now Zeph. ~Yoshi
I love you Zeph. You and your simple yet humorous topic-breakers. ~Coos
Zeph has left me inspired. ~Mathias
Zeph is so awesome even soulless bits of binary worship him. ~Wizard
Curse YOU ZEPH! CURSE YOU! ~JesusChrist
WE ARE SORRY THAT WE ARE NOT AS PERFECT AS YOU, ZEPH! ~Stufflikehearts
Zepherin for forum queen and writer of the best seller "how to screw your brethen up for dummies". ~ The Mirak

So 60 Minutes reporter Lara Logan was gang-raped. No offense, ladies, but I'm not sure why they send women into places in a state like that to begin with.

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Dave keep your damn near racist ignorant logic as far from the other sections of the site as humanly possible because it hurts my face just thinking about it.
MG mal your just sick
Wizard Mal...you're kind of a loser. / Mal was, is, and always will be a cunt / I used to hate Mal, but I've since come to pity him.
Tazuren Mal, please, do the world a BIG FUCKING FAVOR, and drop DEAD!
Cybella YOU EGOCENTRIC IDIOT!
Kathleen mal you are the people i hate the most here...and that is saying something
Hana you misogynist fuckwad.
Sakura I hate you.
Relick not many people would really care if you left without a word.
Cali Mal's an elitist cunt that glowers in getting peopel to dislike him. He can stay the fuck out of the RP forums forever and I'll be happy and he could leave Snafu altogehter and I'd probably not even notice..and if I did, I'd be nothing but happy. Shit, he's nothing special. Just another internet troll that happens to wear a different mask.

Male journalists could just as easily get beaten to death.

At any rate, either would make for an interesting evening headline. (I am not joking; some news offices might feel this way.)

Turn might into most, move it forward by two words, and get rid of some... After that you'll be FAR more accurate with that sentience.

Anyways... *Drags self back onto topic* I'm just pissed the censorship. It's stupid and all it's going to do is let whatever the protestors are pissed about simmer until it boils over in the face of the Egyptian government and whoever else is close at hand at the moment. Same goes for Iran, that government is going to dig themselves into a grave eventually...

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And God looked down upon the mortals and said: "...wtf are you noobs doing on my lawn?"

That's the problem with worshipping the god of schemes. You never quite know whether or not you're being divinely blessed, screwed over royally, or both at the same time.

I didn't say it that way for a reason.