Thomas P.M. Barnett

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WSJ story on late June protests in Alexandria Egypt over the beating death of a man by police who claimed he died trying to swallow drugs as officers came upon him.

Like so many other things in Egypt today, it becomes “an unexpected rallying cry for many Egyptian opposition supporters.”

And, as is the norm now, Mohamed ElBaradei showed up at one such protest and spoke. ElBaradei is now saying that he would run for president against Mubarek if the necessary electoral changes were made to allow him to do so—something I speculated would be true here in the blog months ago.

I’ve got to tell you, an Egypt presided over by ElBaradei would be a revolution in the region. It would be the scariest thing to happen to the region’s autocrats since we took down Saddam.

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