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I have nothing but good wishes for the people of Egypt.
But I can’t think of many revolutions that have gone well since the American Revolution and we had awfully good material with which to work. I don’t think we could pull something like that off today.
Maybe the Romanian Revolution? That’s about it.

12 posted on 02/15/2011 7:02:27 AM PST by Little Ray (The Gods of the Copybook Heading, with terror and slaughter return!)

"But I can’t think of many revolutions that have gone well since the American Revolution and we had awfully good material with which to work."

The Phillipines in 1986
The Orange revolution in Ukraine
The Rose revolution in Georgia
The Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia
The Solidarity led revolution of Lech Walesa in Poland in 1989

There are just a sampling of the many revolutions that have turned out rather well. Are they all perfect? No, but they all resulted in a free people electing a government who represented them and overthrew dictators.