And not just Arab; globally, foreign policies are being hurriedly – and somewhat confusedly – revised and rewritten. This is why US policy oscillated so disconcertingly from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s “Do not rush the pace or else the pro-democracy movement could well be hijacked” to President Barack Obama’s emphatic call for “change now.”
这种向往能否超越尼罗河，就像它从突尼斯来到开罗？ 这一问题不断困扰着其他阿拉伯政权。 而且除阿拉伯以外，世界各国都忙碌而茫然地修订和改写自己的外交政策。 美国的政策也因此令人难堪地摇摆不定，从国务卿希拉里·克林顿的“切勿操之过急，否则民主运动可能被人利用”到巴拉克·奥巴马总统的有力呼吁“立即改革”。