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The unsexy truth about why the Arab Spring failed
By the time it became clear to the world that Egypt's Arab Spring had gone terribly wrong, that the seemingly Hollywood-like drama of good-guy protesters triumphing over bad-guy dictator had turned out to be something much more disappointing, the other revolutions across the Middle East had soured as well. Today, Egypt is under a new military dictatorship; Libya, Yemen, and Syria have all collapsed into civil wars.
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Seems oversimplified to me.
And how! It’s as if the point of the whole piece was to say “You know what the real tyranny is? Unrealistic expectations.” Meanwhile making out as if the only actors with any agency were soon-to-be-deposed paranoid despots, and certainly not anyone with myriad, paramount geopolitical interests in the region. It’s a patina pretending to be realpolitik. Surface-story apologia passing for cynicism.