Arab revolutions: The limits of intervention | Editorial The Guardian

The Guardian, editorial, 01/03/2011, extractos.-

(...) Three lessons should be drawn from the revolutions taking place in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia and elsewhere. The first is that they belong to the people who made them. The Libyans, Egyptians and Tunisians have made enormous personal sacrifices to get this far, humbling eyewitnesses with their determination and heroism. They do not want, nor have they yet sought foreign intervention.

(...) The second lesson is that these revolutions have only just begun, and the task of clearing out old faces is still work in progress.

(...) The third lesson is that the process of remaking politics will occur independently of outside influence, Islamist or western