A Twitter message from Egypt played on the digital lingo: "Uninstalling dictator, 99 percent complete."
Another — perhaps inadvertently — appeared to carry a message for the rest of the region as he joined the avalanche of posts about Mubarak.
"Dude, Egyptians invented writing on the wall," it said. "You really should learn to read it."
I'm sure the autocratic regimes in the Middle East are rushing to learn that fact. The age of the strongman dictator of the Middle East is in the past. Now we just have to wait and see if we see one giant Turkey-like democratic system rolls through the area or not. I know Turkey is going more Islamist at the moment but they might get voted out in the next election. It is the same system like we have in America. If you don't like the government then wait a few years and it will probably switch over to the other party.
What is funny too is that the dictator will have a pretty good chance of winning new terms even in an actual democratic election if they treat their people well. I mean he has the civil service behind him as well as a money advantage almost built in. A man like Jordan's King Adullah as popular as he is could win multiple terms pretty easily.
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