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This is very similar to the overthrow of the Shah of Iran in the 1970s. He was cracking down on the Muslim extremists and the US and world media creamed him for it. Jimmy Carter was instrumental in his overthrow and wouldn’t even allow him in the US for medical treatment. Then the ayatollahs took over and we have what we have there now.

Mubarak in Egypt was similar to the Shah. Now Obama is clearing the path for a Muslim extremists takeover in Egypt.

Your parallel is apt, and the outcome will likely be the same. The media convinced a casually interested public that the Shah was an evil man, and that his downfall was progress. No one in the US cared all that much until the hostages were taken.

My point is, the media will underplay this development and the average idiot will not notice as long as the Egyptians don't take a bunch of Americans hostage. After-all, they gang-raped a woman correspondent and not one voice was raised by the media in protest.