CJ and I were living in Cairo exactly this time 20 years ago, when Gulf War I broke out. We had to field calls from panicked family members asking whether we were caught in the middle of exploding bombs or raging gunfights, while all we could hear were dogs barking in the streets. We'd ask Egyptians what they thought, and their answer was always, "That's somebody else's problem." This stuff going on right now is very much Egypt's problem, and I fret deeply for them. Mubarak was in power then, and still there now, and there've been way too many reasons for people to get plenty fed up with it all in the years between. He's also the strongman of the region, keeping the Muslim Brotherhood in check, and sustaining the peace with Israel, the only Arab country in the region to do so. So yes, it's completely fucked up.