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Old 01-25-2011, 11:20 AM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
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I hope it goes well. Popular unrest and overthrowing a tyrant can create a power vacuum and get co-opted from the participant's original goals - French Revolution, post WW1 Germany, Russian Revolution, Iran....

Hopefully the result will be governments that show some democracy and are acceptable to the US.
^ this

Ironically, anarchists usually are the ones who are thirsty for power. Although it seemed to work for our revolution.
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Old 01-25-2011, 11:46 AM
 
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Egypt has been an American-backed dictatorship for three decades now. Shockingly, this has created some resentment among Egyptians.
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