Whether the Egyptians and Tunisians will make it through the transition, or this will end in bloody ethnic and religious conflicts, whether the Syrians will maintain nonviolent discipline, faced with a brutal daily violence which kills thousands already, or they will slip into violent struggle and make ugly civil war. Will these revolutions be pushed through the transitions and democracy or be overtaken by the military or extremists of all kinds? We cannot tell. The same works for the Western sector, where you can see all these excited young people protesting around the world, occupying this, occupying that.
Si los egipcios y tunecinos lo lograrán a través de la transición; o si acabará en conflictos sangrientos étnicos y religiosos; o si los sirios mantendrán la disciplina no violenta, frente a una violencia cotidiana brutal que ya mata a miles, o si, por el contrario, se volverá una lucha violenta desembocando en una desagradable guerra civil. ¿Se forzarán estas revoluciones a través de transiciones y democracia? ¿O serán absorbidas por militares o extremistas de toda índole?