re: #9 Charles

It would be great if Tunisia could actually seize this opportunity to become a more open society, instead of trading one despot for another. But given the history of the region, the latter is far more likely.

Maybe they’ll beat the odds. I hope so.

I hope so too. Lots of the tweets are in Arabic & French, so I can’t follow everything, but the ones I can follow are cheering the Tunisians on and hoping for Algeria, Egypt, Libya, and Jordan to be next.

No doubt other dictators in the area are getting nervous.

Someone just said a few minutes ago that Ben Ali’s plane ride out of the country was courtesy of Qaddafi—don’t know if that’s true or just rumor.