Indeed, whatever resemblance events on Cairo’s Tahrir Square bear to May 1968 in Paris and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, it would be premature to proclaim that freedom has prevailed. Whether it does will depend to a large degree on how the West responds now, because what is at stake is not just the ousting of tyrants, but also the profound transformation and modernization of entire societies and economies.
事实上，不管开罗解放广场上发生的事件与1968年5月巴黎学生运动以及1989年柏林墙倒塌的事件如何相似，现在依然不是宣布自由已经实现的时候。自由的到来在很大程度上将取决于西方目前的反应，因为最重要的不仅仅是推翻暴政，还有整个社会经济的深刻转型和现代化，而后者将是一个无比艰巨的任务。