Mubarak Falls in Egypt

Egypt! Such a joyous celebration. This is a good thing. The people of Egypt rose up and without violence said they had enough. Mubarak had ruled for thirty years. As "President" he held elections where the results were obviously bogus.  The people had suffered with few jobs, little opportunity, and skyrocketing food costs, while Mubarak and the government did little to help them.
This was an organic simultaneous uprising of the citizenry. This is historic and unprecedented. Its the beginning of a democracy in the Middle East. The people seem to want more freedom, as we have in the U.S.
Mubarak was an iron-fisted dictator. We supported him for thirty years, and funded his military as well as any in the world. He was an ally in a region for we never seem to have enough friends. Our intelligence community failed us. They couldnt imagine such a scenario actually happening. Our foreign policy in the Middle East is behind the current status. We are acting like its 1970 or 1980 not 2011. We need to be more modern in our approach.
Egypt can now have political parties, something Mubarak had banned since 1980, under "emergency powers" in a crisis, the Sadat assassination, 30 years ago.  Egypt won't become another Iran. They can remain secular, more democratic, and an ally and friend of America.
There's good reason to be happy for the people, and look at this as a positive development in world history.