[kroll]

Just what has Mubarak done to Egypt that is so bad?

The police for once, rivals the commie units of yore (the GRU for example). Mubarak developed a torture police primarily to suppress the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1980s partly because that appeased us and garnered funds and also because one of the M.B assasinated the previous President. At some level this seems fine since the M.B. are hardly pleasant. The problem is that he gradually rotated the police around so everyone was torture police and the target no longer remained the M.B. The police in Egypt is super violent, corrupt and arbitrary and there is no escape from them, whether you are middle-class or poor or M.B. I have a friend who works in an American firm in Cairo and he has loads of stories that he hears from the locals(though he is personally protected being a US citizen and all). This isn't just an economic issue....The problem is that Egypt has Two bad guys, Mubarak and the M.B and one of them is/has been supported by us.

[Hulka]

“The police in Egypt is super violent, corrupt and arbitrary and there is no escape from them”

And so are every other police in any islamic or third world country in the entire world. (And, seriously, US police forces as well-—if you take the words of the anti-police posters here on FR.)

The MB is far worse option than Mubarak, both for the US and for the people of Egypt.