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ther bureaucracies, and thus had no legitimacy. Marcus Aurelius was one thing; Tunisia's Zine el- Abidine Ben Ali, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Syria's Bashar al- Assad, quite another. Certainly, the Arab Spring has proved much: that there is no otherness to Arab civilization, that Arabs yearn for univers

r supply have diminished. There are three reasons. First, the most substantial fallout from the Arab world's recent upheaval is behind us. Syria's Bashar al-Assad continues to fight for survival and Yemen continues to flirt with failed-state status, but the Gulf's major oil-producing states are quite stable.

cracies, and thus had no legitimacy. Marcus Aurelius was one thing; Tunisia's Zine el- Abidine Ben Ali, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Syria's Bashar al- Assad, quite another. Certainly, the Arab Spring has proved much: that there is no otherness to Arab civilization, that Arabs yearn for universal values

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n's enormous economic potential with corruption, mismanagement, and needless diplomatic spats, and sends money and weapons to Hezbollah, Hamas, and Bashar al-Assad's goons killing the Syrian opposition? Or the Iran of a young, dynamic populace hungry for democracy, dignity, and jobs, a population that, as Nicho

ives. Remember that the dynastic regime of the al Assads in Syria was built on an east bloc model during

uly, 2012 Article 1. The Wall Street Journal The Sources of the Next American Boom Michael S. Malone Article 2. Stratfor Halting Syrian Chaos Robert D. Kaplan and Kamran Bokhari Article 3. Forbes American Foreign Policy Must Take Into Account Dueling Irans Rob Sobhani Article 4. Los Angeles Times Wi

from the start, then, the feeling is, it did little to show it was taking the matter seriously. The appearance is of an Ankara that was so fixed on Bashar al-Assad's departure that other matters were never considered properly. The sad fact in all this that Turkey is nowhere nearer today than it was 10 or 15 yea

nal state ally is Syria, but President Bashar al-Assad would not be able to direct his armed forces to

e United States can't afford the effort in terms of blood, treasure or focus. Get right with Russia: In his recent book, The Revenge of Geography, Robert D. Kaplan writes that China's ability to project power into the Pacific is made possible by its dominance over its Central Asian land borders, "from Manchuri

ddam Hussein and Muammar el-Qaddafi and Hafez al-Assad in Syria and Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia.

Thce_r o n pos, 27 February, 2010 Article 1. Washington Post Arab democracy and the return of the Mediterranean world Robert D. Kaplan Article 2. Los Angeles Times Winds of change in the Middle East Kenneth M. Pollack Article 3. Article 4. NYT How the Arabs Turned Shame Into

ddam Hussein and Muammar el-Qaddafi and Hafez al-Assad in Syria and Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia.

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e terrifying scale of Libya's Qaddafi and Syria's Assad nor stifled economic progress with such alacrity.

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other bureaucracies, and thus had no legitimacy. Marcus Aurelius was one thing; Tunisia's Zine el- Abidine Ben Ali, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Syria's Bashar al- Assad, quite another. Certainly, the Arab Spring has proved much: that there is no otherness to Arab civilization, that Arabs yearn for universal values ju