Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- January 30, 2011

U.S. President Barack Obama (R) meets with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on August 18, 2009. UPI/Dennis Brack/Pool

Inside the White House's Egypt Scramble -- Newsweek

As protests erupted in Egypt, Washington struggled desperately to find the right response to the crisis.

For three days straight, as the Cairo crisis gathered momentum, they had hardly left their desks. Now, huddled in the big office of their boss—one of the administration policy-makers trying to calibrate the U.S. response to the unfolding drama—the advisers watched Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s first statement. Two television sets were running, one showing CNN and the other a satellite feed from Al Jazeera. Someone had popped popcorn in a microwave. In the old days, their boss reflected, he would have ordered in pizza, but since 9/11 the ever-expanding security precautions had shut down deliveries of take-out.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Beware Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood -- Leslie H. Gelb, The Daily Beast
Egypt protests show George W. Bush was right about freedom in the Arab world -- Elliot Abrams, Washington Post
Egypt needs reform, not revolution -- George Grant and Alexandros Petersen, Daily Telegraph
Egypt unrest: Tough questions if revolution succeeds -- BBC
Analysis: Why Egypt matters -- BBC
The New Arab World Order -- Robert Kaplan, Foreign Policy
The battle of Cairo is over, or is it? -- The Economist
The Arab Revolution: Nile Insurgency Creates Uncertain Future for Egypt -- Spiegel Online
Egypt Unrest: A "Major Political Tsunami" -- CBS News
The Two Likeliest Political Outcomes for Mubarak -- Stephen J. Hadley, Wall street Journal
Arab rulers' only option is reform -- Daily Star editorial
Are the Camp David Accords Doomed? -- Aaron Goldstein, American Spectator
An Arab revolution fueled by methods of the West -- Zvi Bar'el, Haaretz

Who Will Lead Tunisia? -- Carnegie Endowment

Tony Blair: To defeat al Qaeda we must also defeat Iran -- Thomas Joscelyn and Michael Ledeen, The Washington Time

Standing Up to Lukashenko -- William Hague and Guido Westwelle, Wall Street Journal

Hungary’s strongman spooks Europe -- Doug Saunders, Globe And Mail

Spain, hostage to the eurozone -- Mark Weisbrot, The Guardian

The Realist Prism: A 'Greater Atlantic Community' for a G-Zero World -- Nikolas Gvosdev, World Politics Review

WikiLeaks unplugged -- Doyle McManus, L.A. Times