where could this anti-government spread next? the big question. the next domino could be syria where a restrictist baathist regime has been in charge four decades now. you can bet syrian leaders are watching events in egypt very carefully tonight. now, back to anderson in cairo. i show a report where fighter jets are flying low around liberation square around 4:00 this afternoon. we ll show you what impact it had on the protesters in the square, probably not the impact president mubarak hoped it would have. we ll look at the roots of this uprising that started not in egypt but else where in the region. we ll explain ahead.
he can only step aside. when you see these crowds saying one word, it means be gone, leave. this is really what the moral pact of mubarak is severed. tunisia, egypt, look ahead the next six months, what do you see? it s really hard to predict particularly the future. we don t really know. we don t even know if this upheaval, this tsunami that hit the arab world, a man in tunisia sets himself in a blaze in a forgotten for lone tunisia town and you see the ton indonesian envy in every arab county, you aracratic regime whether it s egypt or tunisia, ruled by a man
connect with the aspirations of the egyptians for a change. there is something wrong with our secretary of state saying the egyptian regime is stable when she knew better. there is something wrong with our vice president biden saying that hosni mubarak is not a dictator when every child in exwi egypt we see and every reporter is showing you hosni mubarak is a dictator. there is chaos not only on the streets of cairo but chaos on our end, what to do about egypt and how to understand egypt. what should the u.s. do? i think, look, it s a long story and we have come to this this egyptian protest is happening without any inspiration from the united states. i mean, if you really look at what s happening, not only in egypt but if you widen the lens, and you take a look at the arab world as a whole, you see there is a kind of ir relevance of american power because the
critical of him. i think there is something wrong wit our posture toward egypt. there is something wrong with the american inability to connect with the aspirations of the egyptians for a change. there is something wrong with our secretary of state saying the egyptian regime is stable when she knew better. there is something wrong with our vice president biden saying that hosni mubarak is not a dictator when every child i egypt we see and every reporter is showing you hosni mubarak is a dictator. there is chaos not only on the streets of cairo but chaos on our end, what to do about egypt and how to understand egypt. what should the u.s. do? i think, look, it s a long story and we have come to this this egyptian protest is happening without any inspiration from the united states. i mean, if you really look at what s happening, not only in egypt but if you widen the lens,
spread next? the big question. the next domino could be syria where a restrictist baathist regime has been in charge four decades now. you can bet syrian leaders are watching events in egypt very carefully tonight. now, back to anderson in cairo. i show a report where fighter jets are flying low around liberation square around 4:00 this afternoon. we ll show you what impact it had on the protesters in the square, probably not the impact president mubarak hoped it would have. we ll look at the roots of this uprising that started not in egypt but else where in the region. we ll explain ahead.