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Originally Posted by blankall
I'm sorry, you can't make a generalization like this.
Mubarak was 82, and as far as dictators go, he really wasn't all that bad. If you's tried this with many other dictators (ones who have a firm grasp of the army) they would have gassed and/or shot the protestors at the first signs of trouble.
Violence will always be a necessity in some revolutions.
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I agree . . . . there have probably more revolutions settled by spears and shooting than the opposite, although, the latter is certainly becoming more common in the last 20 or so years.
Right now, you don't really know if anything has fundamentally changed, in spite of the lovely images.
However, across the Middle East, Muslim world in particular, this is a watershed moment for a region badly in need of advancement out of centuries of stagnation. Even if nothing fundamental in the way Egypt actually governs itself changes in the immediate, the people have seen their empowerment.
This will not be the last of these images across this region.
Cowperson