Alarm! Alarm!

It's Sunday morning, Feb 6....and I'm alarmed. The New York Times
reports that a deal is being cut between the US, Europe and the
Mubarak regime that will include some positive changes in the
emergency decrees, the nature of the forthcoming election and
some other timid concessions to the democracy movement. Sorry folks,
what I see is Montgomery Alabama February 1961 when Bobby
Kennedy asked Jim Farmer and the Freedom Riders to "cooldown"
and end the Freedom Ride. Farmer said, "we've been cooling off
for 300 years....we're in the deep freeze....the answer is 'no!'" It's
like 1961 in Cairo.....a popular uprising calling for elementary fairness
and democracy and most of all... the removal of Mubarak...is being
asked to quit. Think about it......the civil rights uprising of the 60s
took another 4 years (after the Montgomery confrontation) and
several deaths before we changed the world with the Civil Rights
and Voting Rights Acts. What Obama and the others must realize
is that this rising.....across the rim of Africa and up into the Outremer
is historic and profound and as natural as a volcano trying to find
it's way up through the mantle of the earth. Nothing short of regime
changes can suffice. Otherwise, the dictatorships remain and are
fair game for the jihadists and other assorted terrorists. There is
a fundamental force underpinning human history in which people
finally say "enough!" It must be heard and embraced.

olval.