Going, going, gone! Now what?
CAIRO - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has at least woken up to the heat and quit. The vice president has named a military council to run the country's affairs while the demonstrators wildly celebrate in the streets. It is, as Churchill put it, only the end of the beginning.
ANALYSIS: That noise you hear is the sound of psychological barriers crashing down all across the Middle East. In Jordan today protesters were on the streets calling, not for the fall of King Abdullah, but for the departure of Egypt's Mubarak. As a Jordanian teenager might say - "Yeah, right!"
Jordon, Morocco, Yemen. Watch this space. And don't forget Iran and Lebanon's temporarily aborted mass revolutions.
As for Egypt, we don't see investors flocking back just yet. The remarkable 18-day stamina of the revolutionaries may have metaphorically toppled the statue in the square, but volatility is still the name of the game in this vast cauldron of social unrest. Egypt is a state in disarray.
ANALYSIS: That noise you hear is the sound of psychological barriers crashing down all across the Middle East. In Jordan today protesters were on the streets calling, not for the fall of King Abdullah, but for the departure of Egypt's Mubarak. As a Jordanian teenager might say - "Yeah, right!"Jordon, Morocco, Yemen. Watch this space. And don't forget Iran and Lebanon's temporarily aborted mass revolutions.
As for Egypt, we don't see investors flocking back just yet. The remarkable 18-day stamina of the revolutionaries may have metaphorically toppled the statue in the square, but volatility is still the name of the game in this vast cauldron of social unrest. Egypt is a state in disarray.

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