A second lesson of recent events in Iran and Turkey is that the spectrum of government in the Middle East and North Africa runs from autocracy and theocracy to varieties of managed democracy. No country qualifies as a full liberal democracy – that is, as a political system that combines free and fair elections with constitutional protections of individual rights for all its citizens.
伊朗和土耳其近几年局势的第二个教训是，中东和北非的各国政府脱离了独裁和神权，涌向各种有管理的民主。没有一个国家够资格称得上完全的自由民主，即结合了自由公平的选举和宪法对全体公民个人权利的保护的政治制度。