from the New York Times:
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is discussing with Egyptian officials a proposal for President Hosni Mubarak to resign immediately, turning over power to a transitional government headed by Vice President Omar Suleiman with the support of the Egyptian military, administration officials and Arab diplomats said Thursday.
Even though Mr. Mubarak has balked, so far, at leaving now, officials from both governments are continuing talks about a plan in which, Mr. Suleiman, backed by Sami Enan, chief of the Egyptian armed forces, and Field Marshal Mohamed Tantawi
, the Defense Minister, would immediately begin a process of constitutional reform.
The proposal also calls for the transitional government to invite members from a broad range of opposition groups, including the banned Muslim Brotherhood, to begin work to open up the country’s electoral system in an effort to bring about free and fair elections in September, the officials said.
for full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/world/middleeast/04diplomacy.html?_r=1&smid=tw-nytimes
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February 3, 2011 at 10:06 pm
Stothes
The White House should say it publicly supports the will of the Epgyptian people. Anything else is hypocrisy.
February 4, 2011 at 5:15 am
Interested Bystander
Hey All,
My take on this whole thing would be like this:
Respond to me what we would think if say next April, we had millions demonstrating and protesting OUR Government?
What if China put out a statement to the effect that Obama needed to step down, and allow Biden to take over until elections in November?
What if France put out a statement that said America had to give the demonstrators a “voice”, and be part of the Government?
What if Great Britan told us we needed to give the Black Panthers and the Aryian Brotherhood a place at the table?
I think we’d tell them to take a flying leap.
In my opinion, this is EGYPT’s problem, and THEY need to handle it. We should keep our “nose” out of it, and show the World we are NO LONGER the “world police”.
We stick our nose in pretty much everything, and have for quite a while.
I believe that when we get our “house” in order, maybe then, we could give other Countries some advice.
Until then, let’s concentrate on fixing OUR problems.