Egypt's president Mubarak, as you know, is the target of five days and counting of riots and protests. Rather than step down, he fired his entire cabinet. Unsurprisingly, that didn't seem to do the trick.
Mr. Obama recently phoned Mr. Mubarak. By what has transpired next, I think we can surmise what he told him.
Mr. Mubarak has just installed intelligence chief Omar Suleiman as vice president, a post that hasn’t existed in Egypt the entire 30 years Mubarak has been embedded.
[At one time, Suleiman] led efforts to patch together a revived "unity government" in Palestine, tying back together Fatah and Hamas.[...]
Fatah and Hamas came close several times to a deal -- but ultimately, the United States privately conveyed to Mubarak and to Suleiman that it didn't want to see the process succeed.
The Saudis who supported a restored unity government in Palestine were highly irritated when Egypt, supposedly brokering a rapprochement between Hamas and Fatah actually sabotaged the effort.
Suleiman, intel chief and now Egypt's VP, was America's proxy.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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