When you lance a boil, it’s difficult, painful business and what comes out of it is really ugly.
The same is true of Arab Spring which, in large part, began with what we did in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama has handled it extremely poorly and the results so far have been ugly, but to a certain extent, that’s to be expected.
Nations like Egypt, Syria, Libya, and Tunisa are poor, backwards, repressed societies that have little experience with freedom and the only force that has been strong enough to stand …










