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i think i keep hoping for something rather than having something in mind. i have a very very close friend who is trapped in an apartment a block or two off of tahrir square. she cannot leave because foreigners are getting attacked on the streets. the dynamic appears to be spiraling toward the potential for very bad things happening. she's been out several days on the square too....it's one of the stranger experiences i've had, sitting in my apartment in massachusetts watching al jaz feeds and loading bits of information into facebook threads that she started in which she describes what she can hear outside and fragments of what she can see and asks people to tell her (and the people who are trapped in the apartment with her) what's going on. makes you feel terribly connected and wholly powerless, that kind of communication. so there's a personal dimension to this, a desire to make the situation stop somehow. it's perhaps more that than an analytic position. i do think that the united states has influence enough to turn the army, but obama is playing a conservative game here. but that's different...i mean that's not really intervening. that's pressuring the army to force the mubarak regime to stand down.
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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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