It was hard, very hard, and absolutely stunning. The Egyptian people, led by its democratic ciberjuventud has given the world a great lesson in clear thinking, courage and tenacity. The huge crowd of Tahrir Square, young and old, middle class and poor of solemnity, men and women, Christians and Muslims insisted on leaving the autocratic Mubarak before even contemplating the possibility of a transition to democracy more or unless negotiated between the regime and the opposition, and had every reason in the world.
Nothing that he promised to have the slightest semblance of credibility if it remained on the throne a Pharaoh mummy become a political corpse stubbornly clinging to office. Mubarak has just gone. The town has earned the pulse. Mubarak last night still insisted on staying on hold until September, to lead in person the transition.
It was a monumental blunder, however much you support the Israeli hawks, other Arab despots, the more conservative elements of the U.S. establishment and the pusillanimity of European leaders. It was a blunder because the people of Tahrir was not going to go, he would not abandon the fight.
On the contrary, going to step up even more disappointed and frustrated with the reinforcement, in addition, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians in the Friday prayers in mosques. In recent days the motto came to be: "If Arafat is stubborn in his efforts to cling to power, more so are we." How could contain human floods that have now occupied the streets of major cities in Egypt? Only a massacre of enormous proportions, a killing never seen live and live in the history of humanity, could try to contain today the Egyptian movement, and yet it was unlikely to achieve its objective.
The false start Mubarak last night he had no future. From the moment the Egyptian army, the country's most prestigious institution and the presidents who have left the Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak, had refused to fire the masses, even stating that he understood and approved of his motivations, the revolution Egyptian democracy was already on track to win.
Now just got its first direct target: the output of the autocrat. And it's time to rejoice. Egyptians, Arabs and all the Democrats on the planet. Tahrir in Arabic means "liberation." And for people who has made this place the beating heart of the struggle for freedom, the first thing that could be released was stony-faced general who has ruled the Nile valley with an iron fist for more than thirty years.
There will be time to discuss whether or not Omar Suleiman is the man of the transition, if it is, as everything indicates, the Arias Navarro in Egypt or if you can spring a surprise and be the Adolfo Suárez. To emphasize the need for a government of concentration in which the Democrats play a significant role and address the task of drafting a new constitution and prepare for free elections.
To analyze the merits and possibilities of alternative personalities like El Baradei and Amr Mussa. And even to speculate on the fate of the Muslim Brotherhood. Just won the first and decisive phase of a democratic revolution. Humanity had not experienced anything like it since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet empire.
And this spring of the Arab peoples have little or nothing to do with Tehran 1979. Berlin only be related by 1989. It is the story in motion, is in economic crisis, the return to the forefront of international politics of the struggle against dictatorship and for democracy and human rights.
Already fallen two Arab autocrats, Ben Ali, Tunisian and Egyptian Mubarak in this democratic revolution Arabic stupid prejudices carry off so many Westerners, as that which states that the Arab and Muslim are inherently incompatible with democracy. Demonstrating that government safeguards in the West is not only cowardly betrayal of the principles and values, but also the result of intellectual laziness, for not doing homework, not having found out that the main protagonist of the Arab world in this century XXI are not Islamists, but the young, those over 100 million young Arabs who desire freedom, dignity and justice.
And now, you want to know what the next Arab autocrat could be overthrown as a result of a popular revolution? The answer is easy: look at where they spent their Christmas vacation the Sarkozy government ministers. The joke circulating these days in France by the embarrassing fact Alliot-Marie Minister pass, free full, your holiday in Tunisia, Ben Ali and Prime Minister Fillon, with the same travel agency in Mubarak's Egypt.
And this is not over. The next day 12 is called a day of protest in Algeria, Libya on 17 and 20 in Morocco. 
Nothing that he promised to have the slightest semblance of credibility if it remained on the throne a Pharaoh mummy become a political corpse stubbornly clinging to office. Mubarak has just gone. The town has earned the pulse. Mubarak last night still insisted on staying on hold until September, to lead in person the transition.
It was a monumental blunder, however much you support the Israeli hawks, other Arab despots, the more conservative elements of the U.S. establishment and the pusillanimity of European leaders. It was a blunder because the people of Tahrir was not going to go, he would not abandon the fight.
On the contrary, going to step up even more disappointed and frustrated with the reinforcement, in addition, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians in the Friday prayers in mosques. In recent days the motto came to be: "If Arafat is stubborn in his efforts to cling to power, more so are we." How could contain human floods that have now occupied the streets of major cities in Egypt? Only a massacre of enormous proportions, a killing never seen live and live in the history of humanity, could try to contain today the Egyptian movement, and yet it was unlikely to achieve its objective.
The false start Mubarak last night he had no future. From the moment the Egyptian army, the country's most prestigious institution and the presidents who have left the Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak, had refused to fire the masses, even stating that he understood and approved of his motivations, the revolution Egyptian democracy was already on track to win.
Now just got its first direct target: the output of the autocrat. And it's time to rejoice. Egyptians, Arabs and all the Democrats on the planet. Tahrir in Arabic means "liberation." And for people who has made this place the beating heart of the struggle for freedom, the first thing that could be released was stony-faced general who has ruled the Nile valley with an iron fist for more than thirty years.
There will be time to discuss whether or not Omar Suleiman is the man of the transition, if it is, as everything indicates, the Arias Navarro in Egypt or if you can spring a surprise and be the Adolfo Suárez. To emphasize the need for a government of concentration in which the Democrats play a significant role and address the task of drafting a new constitution and prepare for free elections.
To analyze the merits and possibilities of alternative personalities like El Baradei and Amr Mussa. And even to speculate on the fate of the Muslim Brotherhood. Just won the first and decisive phase of a democratic revolution. Humanity had not experienced anything like it since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet empire.
And this spring of the Arab peoples have little or nothing to do with Tehran 1979. Berlin only be related by 1989. It is the story in motion, is in economic crisis, the return to the forefront of international politics of the struggle against dictatorship and for democracy and human rights.
Already fallen two Arab autocrats, Ben Ali, Tunisian and Egyptian Mubarak in this democratic revolution Arabic stupid prejudices carry off so many Westerners, as that which states that the Arab and Muslim are inherently incompatible with democracy. Demonstrating that government safeguards in the West is not only cowardly betrayal of the principles and values, but also the result of intellectual laziness, for not doing homework, not having found out that the main protagonist of the Arab world in this century XXI are not Islamists, but the young, those over 100 million young Arabs who desire freedom, dignity and justice.
And now, you want to know what the next Arab autocrat could be overthrown as a result of a popular revolution? The answer is easy: look at where they spent their Christmas vacation the Sarkozy government ministers. The joke circulating these days in France by the embarrassing fact Alliot-Marie Minister pass, free full, your holiday in Tunisia, Ben Ali and Prime Minister Fillon, with the same travel agency in Mubarak's Egypt.
And this is not over. The next day 12 is called a day of protest in Algeria, Libya on 17 and 20 in Morocco.
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