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The article discusses the author's views on the radical change in the U.S. foreign policy which now supports the Islamist extremists group called the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. He cites the ultraconservative Salafist politicians that have become regular visitors to the U.S. Embassy. The author thinks that the U.S. tried Middle Eastern repression to achieve stability, but it only got a terrorism-breeding society of frustrated Arabs under tyrants.

Cairo Perhaps the most effective antidote to 9/11 will prove to be 2/11, the day Hosni Mubarak conceded the game was up with his 30-year-old dictatorship and left town under military escort for the beach. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CAIRO Blood streams from a man's face as he is carried from Tahrir Square. Stones are hurled between antigovernment protesters and President Hosni Mubarak's big-bellied provocateurs. Plainclothes security goons with knives pull over foreign journalists at checkpoints. The toll of dead and injured mounts. The army's Egyptian-assembled M1A1 Abrams tanks are no antiriot tool, menacing beasts marooned. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on negotiators meeting in Cairo to reach an agreement to temporarily halt the war in the Gaza Strip, with international concern over Israel's plan to extend its ground offensive into the city of Rafah, where a significant portion of the population has sought refuge.