Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110123:18:27:00
'60s but in the end they all led to dictatorships never lasting democracy. it's too soon to tell for tunisia but there is hope. we look at them not as an isolated episode but part of a decade of change. there is a pattern emerging. ten years the political landscape was bleak in the arab world. today there are sprouts of democracy breaking out all over. this progress is mostly happening as two steps back, one step forward, two steps ford, one step back, but it is happening. start with iraq. it's still struggling through deep sectarianism, it is a somewhat functional multiparty government and vi...