Forgive me for being more than a little suspicious but these popular uprisings in the mideast seem to be a front for something else more often than not.
Give them a few years then trust but verify.
The “youth” are having another movement.
If there’s one thing that’s been remarkably consistent in accounts of the “natives” from both Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, it has been that nowhere in the Islamic world will the locals stand up to thugs. Other thugs might stand up to thugs, but there’s no group of well intentioned people who will say “You know, those thugs from the (insert name of terrorist group here) are a bunch of a-holes. They’re not from around here. The next time they come into town to intimidate us and take our children for their wars, let’s just kill them.”
The vets would relate situations where a village of 100 to 150 people could be completely controlled by one or two clowns from the Taliban. And yet, every household in the village has at least one AK-47.
In other words, the CIA gave some local Mullahs some “walking around money.”
What to make of this news? When even good news I consider suspect, of more Obama/CIA meddling for orchestrated election advantage, speaks to my now clinically proportioned cynicism.