Fareed Zakaria is glum:
We think of Egypt as having gone through a regime change. But it really didn't go through a regime change. Egypt has been run since 1952 by a military dictatorship. It is still run by a military dictatorship.
Issandr El Amrani counters:
Fareed Zakariya … writes that Egypt is still run by a military dictatorship — well, yes, but it's a dictatorship that has been repeatedly pushed into giving concessions and has a fairly weak sense of authority for the moment.
Robert Worth is on the same page:
In the first days after Mubarak fell, many Egyptians feared that the Supreme Council would enshrine itself as a permanent ruling junta. Instead, the generals seem anxious to please the crowd, fearful, perhaps, that they may become the next target. Egypt’s real rulers, in a sense, are the youth of Tahrir Square, whose periodic protests have continued to push the council toward greater concessions. Even the interim prime minister, Essam Sharaf, seems captive to them. After the council appointed him in March, he went straight to Tahrir Square, where crowds carried him on their shoulders as he declared, “I am here to draw my legitimacy from you.”
(Photo: A woman watches from her balcony as demonstrators gather in Tahrir Square on May 27, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. The ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces said that there would be no use of violence against protests dubbed 'the Second Revolution of Anger' taking place in Cairo and other cities in Egypt. By Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
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