I don’t see any evidence that the battle is between Islamists and the tyrant. I see a modernized people in a tribal country desiring the overthrow of the tyrant. There might be the fanatics on the margin but I don’t see them in the lead.
The Gulf nations are seemingly on the side of the rebels and they are certainly not in the radical/Iranian camp
“I don’t see any evidence that the battle is between Islamists and the tyrant...”
Sound like Jimmy Carter in 1978 talking about Iran. We shall see...