Quote Originally Posted by Cecil XIX View Post
This seems like it deserves it's own thread.

For my part, I fear this will go the way of the Iranian and Russian Revolutions: Well-meaning protesters will depose the government and create a power vacuum that radical thugs can step into and seize power. This also comports to my theory that 2011 will mirror 1979 in terms of US foreign policy debacles.

Opinions?
It may go that way if the US meddles with the process or starts objecting to the democratic choices of the Egyptian people.

Quote Originally Posted by Fisherking View Post
Dose any one think that this Revolution will turn out better than all of the others that end in another dictatorship or prolonged civil war?

So far as I am aware, only the American Revolution ended with a stable representative government.

I am not saying that they were special, they got ever so lucky that the military power didn’t have designs to rule.


http://www.delawareonline.com/articl...ON11/101290306

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...f962c8a4a1b758

We know they object to a repressive authoritarian government but is it enough to keep it from happening again?
The American government where representative?! They were a small clique of wealthy men.