In his essay, Stefan Weidner points out that Mubarak is not the only one who seems to have lost touch with the reality of the situation in Egypt, so too have Western governments and media
The beginning of the end of the regime? “Mubarak is still officially in power, but that power is disconnected from Ground Control, floating off like Major Tom in outer space. The engine of change is hurtling full steam ahead, but the President’s carriage, the one still receiving all the international calls, has been left standing on the tracks,” writes Stefan Weidner
To Egyptian ears, it must have sounded like mockery when US President Barack Obama, who once seemed to be the bearer of international hope, said on Friday that he had impressed upon Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak his responsibility to deliver reform.
On Sunday morning, 19 private jets carrying the families of businessmen close to the regime left Cairo for the Gulf states. No police have been seen on the streets of the capital for the past three days. No one is curtailing the people’s freedom to demonstrate any more; at most it is the demonstrators themselves who are calling for order and turning, when necessary, to the army for help.
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