Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak can gaze in virtually any direction and see the growing signs of disenchantment.
The belief that something is terribly wrong with the way Egypt is being governed has become so widespread that corruption, ineptitude and repression are considered commonplace.
Even Egyptian veterinarians are disgusted with the Hosni Mubarak regime.
In early January, vets took to the streets of Cairo. Marching in front of the Egyptian Medical Association they attacked the corrupt Mubarak bureaucracy, which forces them to deal with two separate ministries, one for health, one for agriculture. Egypt’s veterinarians are calling for a new ministry focused expressly on animal issues and resources.
As the Egyptian veterinarians marched, more protests were both underway and being planned.
Hundreds of teachers from the province of Kafr el-Sheikh, who can’t get the government to give them a permanent contract, were marching in front of the Egyptian Parliament.
But the front and center issue for Hosni Mubarak and his dictatorship is dissent over the Gaza.
Mubarak’s underground fences between Egypt and the Gaza that block smugglers’ tunnels are widely seen as a rebuff to solidarity with the Palestinians.
You know things are bad when veterinarians, a group not typically associated with firebrand politics, take to the street. The collapse of the Mubarak regime with so many disgusted and disenfranchised constituencies is inevitable. Also sadly inevitable is American support for this revolting regime, another example of Washington’s time-honored knack for propping up governments best torn down.
