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Egypt regime 'outsmarts' Obama

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Opposition now expected to become 'more radical and more Islamist'

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A professor of national security matters says Egypt's embattled regime has outsmarted its opposition and the Obama administration as well, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

The citizen uprising in Egypt demanding American ally and strongman President Hosni Mubarak step down has pushed the government to the brink. But Robert Springborg, a professor of national security matters at the Naval Postgraduate school in Monterey, Calif., says the strategy of Mubarak and the military appears to have been successful.

"The threat to the military's control of the Egyptian political system is passing," he said. "The president and the military have, in sum, outsmarted the opposition and, for that matter, the Obama administration."

He said of Egypt's rulers, "The stage was … set for the regime to counterattack the opposition through a combination of divide-and-rule tactics, political jujitsu and crude application of force."

Now, he said, any opportunity to have a democratic Egypt led by those with whom the U.S., Europe and even Israel could do business "will have been lost, maybe forever."

"Uncle Sam," he added, "will have to eat yet more humble pie."

And as far as Egypt is concerned, "It will be back to business as usual with a repressive, U.S.-backed military regime," he said, "only now the opposition will be much more radical and probably yet more Islamist."

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Feb. 8, 2011

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