The road to democracy has always been rocky – look at a century of upheavals in Europe and the difficulties the US faced when dealing with slavery and the rights of its black population. It is to be hoped that there will be a light at the end of the tunnel in the Arab Middle East as well, but the tunnel may be a long one.
民主之路从来都是荆棘遍地——这点从欧洲持续一个世纪的变革以及美国废除奴隶制并赋予黑人政治权利时所面对的困难可知一二。我们希望中东走过的这条隧道尽头将是光明，但这条隧道可能会非常漫长。