As Hosni Mubarak and his family fled to the sunny shores of Sharm el-Sheikh and life in exile, Vice-President Suleiman announced the former president’s resignation, one day after he told Obama to talk a long walk on a short pier.

Now what?

Well, for now anyway, Egypt’s military is in charge. They have already assured Egypt’s allies that the peace deal with Israel will remain intact.

In a television statement, they tentatively tried to assure citizens that all was well and also cautiously outlined the next steps to restore normalcy to a nation torn apart after an 18-day wave of protests.

The protesters may not like this new government very much, as they seem to be very reticent in following the masses’ wishes to dissolve parliament and throw out the current government in favor of some sort of all-inclusive transitional body to oversee reforms until elections can be held.

In their statement, the military did not rule all of this out, but, they did not commit to these actions, either.

President Barack Hussein Obama said in a television statement yesterday:

The people of Egypt have spoken, their voices have been heard and Egypt will never be the same.

Okay. But, that might not necessarily be a good thing.

Obama praised the protesters, calling them the “New Generation” in Egypt. He went on to say that they have “inspired” Americans with their nonviolent activism. He then vowed that the two countries will remain partners.

Obama said:

Egyptians have inspired us. For in Egypt, it was the moral force of nonviolence, not terrorism, not mindless killing … that bent the arc of history toward justice once more.

After Mubarak resigned, Obama said Friday that “the wheel of history turned at a blinding pace.”

Yeah. Like Iran in 1979.

I hate to harsh your mellow, Scooter, but what happens if the Muslim Brotherhood gains true political power and starts moving Egypt away from the West and Israel?

Noticeably Obama did not mention the MB in his self-congratulatory speech yesterday. But, he did cryptically say that the transition

must bring all of Egypt’s voices to the table.

The propaganda from American Liberals during the Egyptian uprising has been that the MB is not that influential in Egypt.

However, Democratic pollster Doug Schoen found that at least 60 percent of Egyptians support the MB.   Furthermore, those polled predicted that in a straight-up democratic election, politicians aligned with the MB would gain a majority and “probably the presidency.”

As I posted last week, according to haaretz.com, in an article posted the day of this famous speech:

U.S. President Barack Obama met with members of Egypt’s Islamist opposition movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, earlier this year, according to a report in Thursday editions of the Egyptian daily newspaper Almasry Alyoum.

The newspaper reported that Obama met the group’s members, who reside in the U.S. and Europe, in Washington two months ago.

According to the report, the members requested that news of the meeting not be publicized. They expressed to Obama their support for democracy and the war on terror.

The newspaper also reported that the members communicated to Obama their position that the Muslim Brotherhood would abide by all agreements Egypt has signed with foreign countries.

But, wait, there’s more, as I have previously reported:

The Muslim Brotherhood has even met with the Obama Administration over the past year as reported by Richard Pollock atpajamasmedia.com:

Last month [January], U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and her senior staff privately met in Washington, D.C., with a select group of Muslim, Arab, and Sikh organizations. Among the mix were three organizations directly associated with an outlawed terrorist entity — the Muslim Brotherhood.

Secretary Napolitano spent an hour and a half briefing them on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) counter-radicalization and anti-terrorist programs. The intensive briefings spanned two days (January 27 and 28) and were called by the DHS.

So, here’s my question, and possibly, yours, as well.  What is Obama going to say and do when the radical Muslims take over Egypt, Algeria, and the other Middle Eastern nations that are currently in turmoil, forming a Caliphate?

Remember the article Obama:  Man of the World, written by Nicholas Kristof for the New York Times in 2007?  No?  Here’s an excerpt from Scooter’s own website, Organizing for America:

He spent four years as a child in Indonesia and attended schools in the Indonesian language, which he still speaks.”I was a little Jakarta street kid,” he said in a wide-ranging interview in his office (excerpts are on my [Kristof’s] blog, http://www.nytimes.com/ontheground). He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his
elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics — and more likely to be aware of their nationalism — if he once studied the Koran with them.

Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as ”one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”

Moreover, Mr. Obama’s own grandfather in Kenya was a Muslim. Mr. Obama never met his grandfather and says he isn’t sure if his grandfather’s two wives were simultaneous or consecutive, or even if he was Sunni or Shiite.

It makes one wonder, doesn’t it?