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The toppling of Hosni Mubarak's Egyptian dictatorship touched off worldwide jubilation. We share the hope the relatively peaceful regime change will bring liberty to the Egyptians and spread freedom to other oppressed Middle Easterners, but temper this hope with the realization freedom and democracy are foreign concepts in the Arab world. As Lee Smith, senior editor of The Weekly Standard, wrote the other day, the Middle East historically has been "ruled by princes and presidents for life whose governance amounted to little more than repression and the instruments of torture used by the various regimes' so-called security apparatuses." Save for...