5 Year Old Child Heads Demo in Alexandria Egypt

Juan Cole 02/05/2011

He is chanting about freedom, the nation, the need for the regime of Hosni Mubarak to fall, and complaining about “American agents.”

I don’t think Mubarak has high ratings in the key demographic of the young. And neither will the US, if it goes on backing people like Omar Suleiman.

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page