I'm not trying to be a ghoul here, but I'm not surprised that Hosni Mubarak has been put in the hospital with an unspecified condition. My guess is that he will quietly die in his sleep in the next few days, which will miraculously keep all the dirty laundry of the Egyptian government from being aired. His family will decide that the best way to deal with their grief will be to move en masse to a small country with no extradition treaties and a warm climate. The Egyptian mobs will have a temper tantrum, then a middle-management group of scapegoats will be offered up and hung.
Why do I get the feeling that all of this is going to play out in this manner? Because I've seen this movie before. When the communist regimes in eastern Europe dissolved, a lot of the dictators or their close advisors died of some quick acting malady and were blamed for a lot of the repressive behavior. Look for this formula to be repeated as dictators in the mid-East are pushed from power.
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