Not as Simple as Breaking Eggs
Resistance movements and protests against governments in the Middle East rarely end satisfactorily or happily.
Pro-government demonstrators gather on Jan. 3 at the Massoumeh shrine in Iran\'s holy city of Qom, some 130 kilometres south of Tehran, as tens of thousands gathered across the country in a massive show of support for the Islamic leadership after days of deadly unrest.
Resistance movements and protests against governments in the Middle East rarely end satisfactorily or happily. Even if such protests are successful in removing state leaders who are seen as autocrats, they never completely tear down the autocracy.
What happened in Egypt and Libya are good examples. Syria is showing similar signs; Yemen is not much different; Tunisia is a little better compared to the other countries that were swept up by the Arab Spring.