Pharaoh's end

Saturday, January 29, 2011 - 4:23 PM Share

As Egyptians took to the streets en masse this week, President Hosni Mubarak faced the largest challenge to his three decade rule. Foreign Policy asked five top experts to assess the Obama administration's handling of these growing signs of unrest, and to offer their advice on how the United States should act going forward.

Nathan Brown: Speak Softly, But Sweet Talk Them Out of Using a Big Stick

Shadi Hamid: How Obama Got Egypt Wrong

Sherif Mansour: It's Freedom, Stupid

Emad Shahin: Obama Still Doesn't Know What To Do About Arab Autocrats

Daniel Brumberg: Mubarak Is Prepared to Fight

KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images

EXPLORE:MIDDLE EAST, MIDDLE EAST, DEMOCRACY, EGYPT, U.S. FOREIGN POLICY

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5:53 PM ET

January 29, 2011

Fevered stuff

A lot of this is fevered stuff. It'd be nice to have some dispassionate analysis about what is actually going on in Egypt rather than endlessly obsessing about what Obama should do next.

And given that this is a popular uprising there's not really that much evidence that America's got that much ability to shape things anyway.