Egypt is an ally. The protesters are radical Muslims.
Mubarak was another in our history having the best dictators in our pocket that borrowed from China money can buy. We could have bought Saddam off too if he would have played his cards right and saved a trillion or so and thousands of our young servicemen.
Does anyone think Americans of 2011 would ever take time off from the blitz of the NFL and Hollywood entertainment propaganda to rise up to demand our freedoms and government back, as these Egyptians have? We Americans of 2011 would still be saluting the King of England, if not for the patriotic gutsy Americans of 1776.