{"id":8986,"date":"2011-01-28T11:06:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T19:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=8986"},"modified":"2011-01-28T11:06:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T19:06:24","slug":"egypt-the-pundits-were-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/28\/egypt-the-pundits-were-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: The Pundits Were Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our narrow-minded and ineffably smug pundits have been wrong, wrong,<em> wrong<\/em> about the Egyptian upsurge. Yes, I know, you&#8217;re shocked &#8212; shocked! They<a href=\"http:\/\/articles.cnn.com\/2011-01-27\/opinion\/osman.egypt.protests_1_egyptians-economic-gains-nile-delta?_s=PM:OPINION\"> said <\/a>it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amconmag.com\/larison\/2011\/01\/28\/deeply-unrealistic-democratism-ii\/\">couldn&#8217;t <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/africaandindianocean\/egypt\/8283402\/Egypt-unlikely-to-turn-into-another-Tunisia.html\">wouldn&#8217;t<\/a> be done, and this &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/tunisiaNews\/idAFLDE70Q1MU20110127\">conventional wisdom<\/a>&#8220;\u00c2\u00a0was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/public-policy-in-casper\/clinton-to-world-egypt-stable-world-to-clinton-mubarak-is-doomed\">echoed<\/a> by\u00c2\u00a0Hillary Clinton and her<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20110125\/ap_on_re_us\/us_us_egypt\"> clueless <\/a>colleagues\u00c2\u00a0&#8212; and yet the Egyptian people are doing it. The ruling party&#8217;s headquarters is on fire, the protesting youth are looting it, the &#8220;national curfew&#8221; is being joyfully and determinedly defied, and the police have been cleared off the street&#8217;s of Egyptian cities. The army &#8212; whose loyalties are not known &#8212; is moving in, and they are being greeted by the protesters as friends and liberators. Well, we&#8217;ll see about that.<\/p>\n<p>The army is headed to the national state-controlled television station &#8212; a key weapon in any ruling class attempt to tamp down popular discontent &#8212; and the Interior Ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our narrow-minded and ineffably smug pundits have been wrong, wrong, wrong about the Egyptian upsurge. Yes, I know, you&#8217;re shocked &#8212; shocked! They said it couldn&#8217;t and wouldn&#8217;t be done, and this &#8220;conventional wisdom&#8220;\u00c2\u00a0was echoed by\u00c2\u00a0Hillary Clinton and her clueless colleagues\u00c2\u00a0&#8212; and yet the Egyptian people are doing it. The ruling party&#8217;s headquarters is on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8987,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8986\/revisions\/8987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8986"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}