Isn't it time we started some straight talk over Egypt? How long must we watch these incredibly brave people stand in Tahrir Square while their hated and corrupt leader clings onto power? Is 30 years not long enough for him? The people want him out. We believe in the people's choice. So we should want him out - and say so.
All this diplomacy and sitting on the fence is shameful. We see politicians on every news broadcast unable to bring themselves to accept the reality. Meanwhile the protest goes from peaceful, to police violence, from flowers on tanks to thuggery and then stalemate. Nothing. These people must be sickened to their depths at the West's craven feebleness.
Protester Ahmed Salah writes: "We have lived for three decades without human rights. I was arrested and beaten until they broke my nose.The next day I went out again and was shot with a rubber-coated metal bullet that is still stuck in my head.
"The international community must take moral responsibility for all the decades of supporting this dictatorship." We have a duty. Let's do it. For their example of true courage alone, we owe them.
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