[Old Teufel Hunden]

"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.

[Little Ray]

I'm convinced. I'd forgotten them or considered them something other than “revolutions” but I stand corrected.
I still don't think the Egyptian have as good material to work with as the nations you have listed. Even the Filipinos had a better example with which to work (Americans) than the Egyptians.

[Cronos]

Yes, and to add on the end of Apartheid, then the non-violent freedom movement of India, etc.

Btw, Solidarity (or Solidarność really won it's victory way back in 85)