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rendition switcher   Ian Bremmer: We should not go looking at
Egypt as if it’s a successful revolution.  It’s not.  It’s a
managed transition.  Mubarak is gone.  The military is still
there and it will be the most powerful player in that country
for a long time.  There will be a democratically elected
government and that’s a good thing.  But it will be a weak
government.  It will have weak political parties.  It will
probably form weak coalitions that will have a very hard time
actually getting meaningful political and economic reform
done.    So is Egypt a success story?  Well it’s not like Iran
where the demonstrators were brutally repressed, but it’s also
not like Georgia where you ended up with a complete shift of
regime so great on the political economic and security front
that the Russians invaded them a few years lat