At the end of the day, there clearly is no Middle East-wide Arab Spring. Indeed, there may not be an Arab Spring at all. Not a single Arab state is being led by the kind of secular liberals that Washington favors, and the cloud of Islamism hangs over the entire region. Whether the Arab Spring will lead directly into winter remains unclear, but Washington and its allies, including its Arab allies, have every good reason to worry that it might.
I was looking at the upheavals in places like Tunisia, Egypt and Syria as signs that the people of those countries were attempting to assert their God-Given right to be free. And I thought that was what the phrase "Arab Spring" meant to capture.
I also thought that people seeking to be free and to re-gain their liberty were objectives that Americans supported. Dov Zakheim's blog post does necessarily say so explicitly but what I gather from this particular blog post is that it is no "Arab Spring" if they do not result in governments and/or policies that are favorable to the U.S.
Am I misreading it?
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