Yesterday the world watched as anti-Mubarak protesters clashed with what some benignly called pro-Mubarak protesters. That seemed to be intended to imbue the pro-Mubarak thugs with a certain moral equivalency. It was simply a difference of opinion.
This morning an Al Jazeera reporter claimed the pro-Mubarak thugs were likely hired goons from the Cairo slums. She said that was easy enough. Give them twenty bucks, a week's wages, and a bus ride to the square. Basically she was making a claim we've heard before.
But.
But she had one little observation that reinforced her point. She noted that the pro-Mubarak mob cleared out, en masse, at day's end. They punched their time cards and went home, their day's work done.
Pretty good point.
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