PETER WEHNER: Why The Lid Blew Off In Egypt.

As I said back when this whole thing started, it would have been much better for this to have happened in the period 2003-2005 — when the U.S. was perceived as strong, and interested in Arab democracy — than now, when we’re seen as weak and disengaged. I still think, despite what Rumsfeld told me when I interviewed him a few weeks ago, that the Bush Administration consciously stepped back from the pro-democracy agenda, and that it was a mistake.