Perhaps it’s appropriate that I was in Cairo on the weekend of the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, since I may well have been at the place where 10 years of the War on Terror came to an end.
It began at Ground Zero in New York City on September 11, 2001, and likely terminated at Tahrir Square in Egypt on January 25, 2011. Even this past weekend when I was there, tens of thousands crowded the huge traffic circle waving flags and patriotic banners. Now, however, they aren’t calling for the fall of a dictator, but for government to be true to its promise of free and fair elections. The excitement over the democratic changes in the country is palpable.
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