Egypt

The removal of Egypt's authoritarian is both a test and a hope for the future. I thought the removal of a dictator was impossible in this post Tiananman square age of total wired Police states.But this machine is staffed with humans, and no microchip can make a man fire a gun at his neighbors if he sees them as his neighbors. This is what is so destructive about Hannity, Rush, Beck et al; teaching us that some Americans are Americans and so me are not. This, like the radio propaganda offensive waged before the Rwanda genocide, makes it possible to find people willing and eager to kill. If Egypt turns into another militarist state then it will still show that people can remove powerful, U.S. supported dictators. If it becomes a better state with a decent level of minority protection and rights enshrined in enforced law it will mean a different world IS possible. That means we are only held back by fear. I was starting to doubt that such was possible