Who is gaining most this year from the Arab Spring of uprisings, revolutions and civil wars? The citizens of the authoritarian states who have seen salaries and social spending jump, or those living with the reality of transformation?
Put that way the naive optimism of some supporting the Arab Spring is revealed as dangerous. Any student of history knows that revolutions usually make life much harder before they sometimes work out for the best. They are very hard times indeed for the ordinary citizen.
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