It’s night in Cairo. The lights in Tahrir Square illuminate people standing shoulder to shoulder, filling the square, waving hands and fluttering flags, whistling and chanting and clapping in synchrony. Things are moving very fast now. Mubarak may soon join the ranks of de-stringed puppets: Pinochet, Pahlavi, Marcos. What a legacy.
Fingers crossed.
Because we know that disposing of the dictator is just a first step, and euphoria needs to quickly transition to hard, hard work to make sure that the solution doesn’t devolve to be far worse than the problem. The kernel of the matter, of course, is who or what takes power after Mubarak steps down.
Fingers crossed for the people of Egypt.