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Sacking you Cabinet: Egypt, and Jordan ...

I am unsure why these men believe sacking their cabinet will fix anything.  The only 'sacking' they should be contemptaing is their own. With the US sitting on its collective hands, with a Secretary of State who is shown out of her league, calling all the US Ambassadors together for a meeting (presumably on last month's news about Wikileaks), and a President who is wholly incapable of handling the issues of the day - Egypt is still in meltdown stage. There is one ray of sunshine is Egypts news - they talk of a million or two million people fitting into that square in Cairo.  The square is 490,000 sq ft.  Assume each person takes up 2 sq ft (very tightly packed) and you get a maximum of 300,000 people who could fit into the square.  Then subtract out the empty spaces (along the edges and in the middles of the square) and that many people are moving, not stationary.  Maybe 200,000.  THAT is not a sizeable percent of Cairo to worry about.  If that many we...