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otto---i think that the central concern of everyone is that there be no power vacuum.
things are still quite open-ended right now, but there's no reason to expect there will be one because (and on this i think my take is correct) the us, europe and others who have a stake and influence (and the us has A LOT of both) are working with/through the army. like i said, some people are reading the situation as already a military junta---with mubarak as a figurehead---i don't see that as flying. what i expect is going to happen is that mubarak is going to be forced to stand down one way or another and that the military---likely someone other than suleiman, but maybe not (he's there after all) will start some kind of process to initiate elections.
i think it'd be way smarter for mubarak's cabinet to be a transitional affair and to give way to a credible temporary government that would oversee a move toward elections.
what would be the bad scenario would be for mubarak to try to stay in power for much longer.
you can't rely on fox or cnn for anything like coherent analysis of what's happening in egypt. or anywhere for that matter--but their collective failings are entirely evident in this case. what cnn is interesting to watch for is the parade of administration officials in damage control mode....
the images on al jazeera are stunning.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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