The way I see it
It's amazing to me what I've been watching on CNN over the last week. Anderson Cooper has done an amazing job of covering an impossible situation. He's the consummate professional who has been calm under extreme pressure particularly when he's been threatened and experienced bodily harm.
I'm encouraged by the people of Egypt who are calling for free and fair elections, democratic rule and a better future for their country. The similarities between our own American revolution and Egypt are remarkable yet I can't help but wonder if this will be yet another Arab world debacle where people will be tortured, needlessly killed/martyred in the name of "order."
That Mubarak wants to stay in office until September citing his desire to finish his term of office is ludicrous. We all know he's a dictator and he alone has been the one to set the length of his term of office. Surely my president is working on a way to get that nitwit out of office with some measure of dignity, something Mubarak didn't offer protestors, especially those who were ruthlessly killed by street thugs loyal to their power and paycheck only.
What's even more disconcerting is that there is speculation Mubarak had something to do with Anwar Sadat's assassination. Sadat, if you recall, along with Menachem Begen sealed the deal for peace between Israel and Egypt that went a long way in stabilizing the region. Now his failure to exit swiftly threatens to undermine that treatise and poses a near eminent danger to Israel.
"Wars and rumors of war," are apocalyptic signs according the the Christian Bible. Is the end nigh? Only God knows.
My prayer is for peace in the Middle East, something that has been tenuous, at best, since the dawn of man.
