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In a piece from this week's Newsweek, Niall Ferguson, the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor at Harvard Business School, totally destroys the fallacy on going that the Obama Administration's policy toward Egypt during this recent crisis was purely successful. He writes:

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, EGYPT - Hosni Mubarak, whose presence was felt and feared throughout Egypt for 30 years, has fallen quickly and astonishingly out of sight, his exact whereabouts unknown. The prime minister declared Sunday that Mubarak was here, in a favored southern Sinai resort, and a senior U.S. administration official said the White House also believes that Mubarak is staying in Sharm el-Sheikh. Mubarak remains unseen here so far, just as always. For the last five years, he has come to this sunny retreat for one or two days a week, often longer, local residents say, vanishing behind the high...

Things in Egypt are looking grim indeed. After weeks of protests and riots, Mubarak finally stepped down. The military has now taken over the country, in a move that many are bizarrely calling "democratic." This seems incredibly unlikely to bring about an Egypt which is more just and less corrupt. "Egypt's military dissolved parliament and will run the country for six months or until elections are held, it said in a statement Sunday, two days after President Hosni Mubarak resigned."

We have learned through foreign sources that Hosni Mubarak was flown this morning to a Baden hospital in Germany after falling into a coma. Continue reading on Examiner.com: Mubarak in life/death state in Germany hospital - National Foreign Policy | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/foreign-policy-in-national/mubarak-life-death-state-germany-hospital#ixzz1DsUiWFbO

It’s a new day in the Arab world — and, let’s hope, in American relations to the Arab world. The truth is that the United States has been behind the curve not only in Tunisia and Egypt for the last few weeks, but in the entire Middle East for decades. We supported corrupt autocrats as long as they kept oil flowing and weren’t too aggressive toward Israel. Even in the last month, we sometimes seemed as out of touch with the region’s youth as a Ben Ali or a Mubarak. Recognizing that crafting foreign policy is 1,000 times harder than...

"He had very tough things to say about the United States," said Ben-Eliezer, a member of the Labor Party who has held talks with Mubarak on numerous occasions while serving in various Israeli coalition governments. "He gave me a lesson in democracy and said: 'We see the democracy the United States spearheaded in Iran and with Hamas, in Gaza, and that's the fate of the Middle East,'" Ben-Eliezer said. "'They may be talking about democracy but they don't know what they're talking about and the result will be extremism and radical Islam,'" he quoted Mubarak as saying. Meanwhile, Doug Schoen,...

By Philip Sherwell, in New York, Robert Mendick, and Nick Meo in Cairo 8:26PM GMT 12 Feb 2011 The former Egyptian president is accused of amassing a fortune of more than £3 billion - although some suggest it could be as much as £40 billion - during his 30 years in power. It is claimed his wealth was tied up in foreign banks, investments, bullion and properties in London, New York, Paris and Beverly Hills. In the knowledge his downfall was imminent, Mr Mubarak is understood to have attempted to place his assets out of reach of potential investigators. On...

Most Israelis were either born or immigrated to this country during the period in which Hosni Mubarak ruled Egypt. This is the reality they know. And this is the significance of the stability that Mubarak provided them with. (Snip) The best case scenario, in his view, even if it is less likely, is that Egypt will become like Turkey before the era of Erdogan: a pro-American country, controlled by the military. Netanyahu shared with Mubarak his concerns about the growing strength of Iran. Egypt played a key role in the Sunni, the "moderate," axis, which lined up alongside Israel

Switzerland has announced that it was freezing assets owned there by Hosni Mubarak , former president of Egypt, the media reported today. The announcement, which gave no details as to what assets Mubarak or his family might have in Swiss banks, will send shock waves through the presidential palaces of other Middle Eastern countries, according to a report in The Daily Telegraph newspaper. "The government wants to avoid any risk of misappropriation of state-owned Egyptian assets," a statement by the foreign ministry of Switzerland stated. Stories of Mubarak's personal wealth, ranging up to wild estimates of USD 70 billion (44...

The speculation regarding President Obama’s handling of the recent fall of Egypt’s long standing regime is an ever growing amalgam of bigotry, conspiracy theories, and apologetics. And that’s just from the Left! Now that we have the obligatory dig at liberals out of the way, it’s time to look at why President Obama is an abject failure in his handling of the recent so-called revolution of Egypt. The comparisons to former President Jimmy Carter have been made ad nauseum, parallels between the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Tehran are clearly drawn, and the idea that President Obama is a Muslim or...

I think it is fair to say that a lot of the higher-echelon government jobs, particularly in the Federal Government, are sui generis. ...

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's resignation Friday is good for the country's Coptic Christians, according to a religious freedom expert. Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman read a short statement Friday saying that Mubarak had "decided to leave his position as president" and hand over control to Egypt's powerful Armed Forces Supreme Council. Mubarak has reportedly left Cairo to his home in Sharm el-Sheik, according to the New York Times. "I think Mubarak's resignation is a good thing for Coptic Christians, and other Egyptians. If he had not done so, there would likely have been riots and violence and a descent into...

An instant classic from Newsbusters. Shot for shot, for pure ignorance and sycophancy, this might be Tingles’s all-time most surreal moment. And not merely because of the Obama messianism involved, either — although, to be sure, that’s plenty surreal too under the circumstances. In fact, Tapper’s updated his post from earlier this afternoon with a few more fun facts about how little the White House cared for democracy in Egypt until now. Not only didn’t we need The One to “have this happen,” he actually cut the financial lifeline that could have brought it about sooner: Windsor tells ABC News...

President Barack Obama should win another Nobel Peace Prize for orchestrating an Islamic revolution from Jimmy Carter’s Iranian play book of indecisiveness. He has humiliated a Muslim ally who has fought terrorism for decades and has supported U.S. policies in the Middle East. So far, Hosni Mubarak has refused to flee Egypt, but left Cairo for his retreat in Sharm el-Sheikh. While he has apparently resigned as its leader, he above all men is haunted by the ghost of Persia. Egypt was the first nation to offer the Shah refuge when he fled Iran on January 16, 1979. It was...

For three weeks, Egyptians, maybe in the millions, have marched to get rid of their president. Yesterday, they got what they wanted as President Hosni Mubarak announced his resignation. Cairo was a huge stage for celebrations as people sang, danced, distributed sweets and congratulated each other for the success of "our revolution." The young Egyptians known as The Facebook Movement set an example for young Muslims everywhere by proving stronger than Mubarak and his military machine, the largest in the Muslim world. They didn't use car bombs and suicide operations as Khomeinist terror squads had done in Iran in 1979....

US President Barack Obama recalled the non-violent methods of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr as he praised the people of Egypt for their peaceful protests and welcomed the end of Hosni Mubarak's 30-year-rule. "While the sights and sounds that we heard were entirely Egyptian, we can't help but hear the echoes of history: echoes from Germans tearing down a wall, Indonesian students taking to the streets, Gandhi leading his people down the path of justice," Obama said in his speech hours after Hosni Mubarak resigned as President of Egypt. As Martin Luther King said in celebrating the birth...

Now that Hosni Mubarak has resigned as dictator of Egypt, what role in the perilous transition ahead might be played by former United Nations nuclear chief and Nobel laureate, Mohamed ElBaradei? When protests erupted last month, ElBaradei returned to his native Egypt, and under the caption “opposition leader” has been all over the news, offering himself as a “broker,” a “vessel,” a “bridge,” an “agent of change,” from Mubarak’s rule to “democracy.” On Friday he welcomed Mubarak’s ouster as “the greatest day of my life.” Yet ElBaradei has linked arms with, among others, Egypt’s Islamist Muslim Brotherhood – the jihad-preaching...

A top Egyptian security official is warning he expects "a wave of Islamic terror attacks against the country, planned and prepared outside of Egypt," according to G2 Bulletin's intelligence sources. The terror threat in Egypt is being taken so seriously among western and Israeli intelligence agencies that they are actively considering the possibility of the fall of President Hosni Mubarak's regime and pondering what might become of Cairo's weapons of mass destruction in such an eventuality. During a special session of the People's Assembly, Egyptian Minister of the Interior Habib al-Adeli reportedly told legislators that his assessment is based on...

(snip) “I applaud President Mubarak’s decision to step down. This was obviously a very difficult decision for President Mubarak, but it is the right decision for Egypt. History will note that President Mubarak’s last action in office was in the best interest of the country he loves. “While this is a welcomed event, the Egyptian people are clearly saying that President Mubarak’s resignation should be the beginning, not the end, of their country’s transition to democracy. I completely agree. For the Egyptian people to achieve the legitimate and enduring democratic change they seek, representatives from Egypt’s pro-democracy parties and movements...

Let My People Go  Christians versus Muslims in Modern Egypt: The Century-Long Struggle for Coptic EqualityBy S. S. HasanOxford University Press. 320 pp. $49.95.Reviewed by Robert W. ShaffernSana Hasan, an Egyptian scholar best known for her Enemy in the Promised Land, has written another important book in Christians versus Muslims in Modern Egypt—a book in which she honestly confronts the sorry condition of Christians in Egypt, where the “problems faced by the Christian minority are for many . . . a taboo subject.” Hasan courageously describes the discrimination and harm often visited upon one of Christianity’s oldest communions—the Coptic...