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but the geopolitical reality is that the US is deeply enmeshed in Egyptian and ME politics/economies. This is a client state that the US will not allow to either become Islamist, which is highly unlikely, or secularly independent. Never, if it can help it. The US will only accept the class and system that Mubarak represents, with or without him; thus Omar Sulieman.

The Obama administration is not likely to shift course on 30 years of American policy in Egypt--support for the pharaonic regime and its anti-democratic essence.