Seven days of protests in Egypt and still no clue as to what is going to become of it all. It is reported there will be a million person march Tuesday and a general strike has been called throughout the nation. It seems the people of Egypt want the dictator Mubarak out, and they are not going to settle for anything less, which begs the question, if Mubarak steps down who is going to step up to lead the country until elections can be held.
The Egyptian military is definitely the prominent power but if it is not being controlled by a civilian authority that would leave the Egyptians with a military dictatorship, which is essentially what they are trying to get away from. It is hard to believe that those who planned the revolt, which has thus far been successful, did not have a contingency plan in the event that they succeeded.
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