Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110130:15:02:00
Change, but in a strange sense, these forces may have been set in motion by the successes of the regimes in recent years. you see, tunisia and egypt had been reforming their economies. this stimulated growth. tunisia growing at 5% a year and egypt faster than that. it is this revolution of rising expectations that often undoes a dictatorship because it is unable to handle the growing demands of its citizens. in egypt, mubarak's regime moved back politically, rigging elections, jailing the opposition and signalling that the 82-year-old ailing dictator intended to stay in power for years. what s...