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And so, huh.  Wow.

…suggestion seems to be that the military will take power. Interesting. In the long run, I think it matters A LOT that this went down with relatively low levels of violence. So far, that is.

…so next question is what this does for popular resistance in Jordan, Syria, Algeria, and elsewhere. In retrospect it will be easy to find reasons why Mubarak was particularly vulnerable. Right now, I’m finding it hard to see that the other authoritarian regimes are any safer.

…I’ll admit that I get a certain perverse pleasure from telling my twenty-something students “Reminds me of 1989…”

… Marc Lynch “Leon Panetta: ‘I was 12 hours off. Back the $#@% off.’ #Egypt”. Some truth to that. Interregnum was probably bad for Suleiman, allowed Obama to make a more forceful statement.

…Joe Biden is on my teevee.

…Now this is just weird:

…and I would like to point out again how prescient I was in emphasizing the importance of mil-to-mil ties.

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