Updated Title: World Revolution 2011

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Originally Posted by firstdown

So why is Obama supporting this up rising? There is a chance that this could become another Iran.

Clearly the US is caught between a rock and a hard place with this issue. There are legitimate democratic forces that are involved in the peaceful, so far, demonstrations, and they are voicing legitimate concerns so we as a country and by our supposed ideology need to be supportive of those groups and ideas. On the other hand, the Egypt-Israeli cooperative peace, such as it is, is vital to our national interest as long as we support Israel's right to exist, and Mubarak has a long standing relationship with the US, hard to break those ties without scaring our other allies. (there was a reason why the founding fathers warned of foreign entanglements!)