Arab Spring = Mob rule.
Despondent? They should be grateful that they are still alive!
I'm better with that than Islamic rule, who mutilate young girls; treat women as possessions; kill women for the slightest family dishonor reason; vow to kill anyone who don't believe in their cult or sub-cults; blow up innocents; shoot innocents; and want the awful (political/theocracy) Sharia Law in place around the world. Sorry for the run on sentence.
My dream is that the Sunni and Shiite tribes concentrated on each other kill each other. Now that North America is becoming a net exporter of oil and natural gas and develop more every day, I await the day we can tell the Saudis to stick their oil where the doesn't shine. (p)Other than the United Arab Emigrate that has been mostly secular and highly productive (think Dubai), the rest can go back to humping camels.
I now have hope for Egypt since the coup. Since the Muslim Brotherhood Morsi has been disposed, I can actually see a future for them, also. Yes, the radical Islamists will continue killing, but with a strong central Egyptian government backed my the military, they will have no problem with pounding those savages back into the 7th century they so desire. The secularists in Egypt are not constrained by political correctness, as is our nation.