The long sought pipe dream: socialdemocracy in the middle east. This time in the form of the so-called &quot;Arab spring&quot;, a fiasco all EU and US liberals hailed as the panacea for the middle east and which has only caused untold suffering and destruction. Libya is in disarray, Egypt saved by the bell, and so on.<p>Apparently we&#x27;re too dumb to realize that the best these countries and their culture can do are kinda-socialist pretenders like Saddam and Assad who rule with an iron fist. Trying to create western democracies in that environment is simply insane.