The major obstacle to ousting Mubarak is that a major sector of the state apparatus, especially the 325,000 Central Security Forces and the 60,000 National Guard are directly under the Interior Ministry and Mubarak. Secondly, top Generals in the Army (468,500 members) have buttressed Mubarak for 30 years and have been enriched by their control over very lucrative companies in a wide range of fields. They will not support any civilian ‘coalition’ that calls into question their economic privileges and power to set the political parameters of any electoral system. The supreme commander of the Egyptian military is a longtime client of the US and a willing collaborator with Israel.
This is a good analysis of U.S. Imperialism in relation to the situation in Egypt. The U.S. has a long standing history of propping up dictatorships in the world from Chile with Pinochet to Indonesia with Suharto. When the media talks about U.S. Interest being threatened and the need to look out for it, what they mean is the economic interest of the capitalist class and not the interest of the people.
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