Let my people go!

Looks like things are heating up really, really fast in Egypt.  Good for them, I say.  Here is to hoping that  pharoah dictator president Mubarak will flee the country.  Maybe he too should head to Saudi Arabia, which started the practice of hosting dictators quite a few years ago.  It is to the Kingdom of Saud that even the notorious Idi Amin fled.

The Guardian :

More ordinary citizens are now defying the police. A young demonstrator told me that, when running from the police on Tuesday, he entered a building and rang an apartment bell at random. It was 4am. A 60-year-old man opened the door, fear obvious on his face. The demonstrator asked the man to hide him from the police. The man asked to see his identity card and invited him in, waking one of his three daughters to prepare some food for the young man. They ate and drank tea together and chatted like lifelong friends.
In the morning, when the danger of arrest had receded, the man accompanied the young protester into the street, stopped a taxi for him and offered him some money. The young man refused and thanked them. As they embraced the older man said: "It is I who should be thanking you for defending me, my daughters and all Egyptians."

Could the sudden overthrow of such regimes be the geopolitical game-changer that I have been waiting for?  Certainly these were not on the horizon at all ...