A day late?

Dear reader:  Do you understand what is deceptive and transient in this situation, and what is crucial and abiding?  In my last headline I was content to go with what "sources say"; that was in error.  What those many thousands of Egyptians were doing in the public streets -- demonstrating, non-violently, for change -- that was the unquestionable essence of the situation, and the stubbornness of an authoritarian octogenarian could not stand against it.