Here are some of the ripples beginning to hit the shore in other Arab nations.

King "What? Me Worry?" Abdullah of Jordan on CNN:

CNN.com - Jordan's Abdullah: Iraq election sets 'good tone'

This kind of thing always gets a chuckle out of me:

"Most progressive" includes having a King and a country where Jews are allowed neither to be citizens nor own land.

Some of those ripples in Amman can be read in this doubly-interesting paragraph at Healing Iraq (read it all, though):

Catch two things of interest, here. First, those ripples that pose so much of a threat to so many tyrants all over the region, and second, the fear and survival instincts of a man who's lived his entire life in a death-trap for inquiring minds kicking in. I'm sure that there's a lot of that all over the Middle East, and it stunts the growth of societies and stifles the spread and testing of new ideas. Compare that to your own way of life, your own ability to share and test ideas, and is it any wonder that politically repressive regimes always lag behind the developement of the Free?