We're seeing a seismic shift in Middle East politics. TIME TO KICK THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT INTO GEAR!

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The events in Egypt today, and earlier in Tunisia are focusing events that have fundamentally shifted the way things are going to work in the Middle East.

This could be as significant as the fall of the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall back in 1989, or like the Tet Offensive in Vietnam - it could change the way the people of the world view how things should be run in the Middle East.

It's time to end the rule of tyrannical dictators in the Middle East. Tyrants back by the U.S. in open contempt of American democratic values.

So you want to do something other than sitting on the couch, watching things unfold on Al Jazeera and Twitter?

Get back out on the streets with the anti-war movement! We've gotten a partial victory in the slow, but incomplete drawdown in Iraq. But the wars aren't over yet.

This is our chance to work to end the wars for good. With the shift in perceptions comes a chance to make it clear that the presence of our troops, our tanks and our warplanes are doing nothing to deescalate the turmoil in the region, and in fact are escalating it, all so the bigwigs in companies like Blackwater and Halliburton can rake in the bucks.

We know that it's been long past time to bring our troops home from Iraq, and we need to do the same thing in Afghanistan - otherwise, we'll spend yet more years in a futile game of Whack-a-Mole.