Events in Egypt

Lew Rockwell has a whole slew of articles on the Egyptian crisis, but their comments boil down to this:

I see the essence of the story in this. An authoritarian state with rigged elections and with an extensive and brutal secret police and with control over the internet, can be brought down by direct citizen action. I said “can” since we do not know yet how this will play out. But other authoritarian states have been brought down in similar circumstances (Iran, Philippines, Romania). -- James Ostrowski, "The Death of a State."

And, under similar circumstances, so could the United States.