{"id":9237,"date":"2011-02-11T08:27:12","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T16:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=9237"},"modified":"2011-02-11T08:49:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T16:49:15","slug":"mubaraks-downfall-one-down-one-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/11\/mubaraks-downfall-one-down-one-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Mubarak’s Downfall: One Down, One to Go…."},"content":{"rendered":"

To predict a dictator’s downfall in the evening, and to wake up to his resignation <\/a>is to live in a pundit’s paradise, and that’s precisely where I am today. As I said in this morning’s column<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Mubarak,\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>as I said<\/em><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0a while back, is finished. His <\/em>Norma Desmond<\/em><\/a> moment has come and gone \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and it looks like he wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t all that ready for his close up. The question now is what \u00e2\u20ac\u201c or who \u00e2\u20ac\u201c comes after: and now is precisely the moment when we can expect the US effort to influence events to go into overdrive. Whatever the Egyptian military command decides, you can bet it isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t without input from the Pentagon, which is even now communicating with their Egyptian counterparts. They are no doubt pushing the US line, which is, as the State Department has made all too clear, that <\/em>we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re sticking with our man Suleiman<\/em><\/a>. This is unacceptable to the crowds in the street, however, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see how long it is before Washington throws him overboard, too, just like they did Mubarak.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Shorter version: One down, one to go….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To predict a dictator’s downfall in the evening, and to wake up to his resignation is to live in a pundit’s paradise, and that’s precisely where I am today. As I said in this morning’s column: “Mubarak,\u00c2\u00a0as I said\u00c2\u00a0a while back, is finished. His Norma Desmond moment has come and gone \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and it looks […]<\/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-9237","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\/9237","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=9237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9239,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9237\/revisions\/9239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9237"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}