If you spend time talking to western officials about the uprisings in the Arab world, you are likely to hear two contradictory views advanced – sometimes by the same person. The first view is that the “Arab spring” is, as one European diplomat puts it, “the best thing that has ever happened in my lifetime in the Arab world”. The second is that this is the most dangerous moment in the Arab world in decades.
如果你和西方官員們聊一聊阿拉伯世界的大範圍抗議活動,你會聽到兩種截然相反的觀點——有時甚至來自同一個人。第一種觀點認爲:「阿拉伯之春」是「在我有生之年阿拉伯世界發生的最美好的事」(用一位歐洲外交官的話講)。第二種觀點則認爲,這是數十年來阿拉伯世界最危險的時刻。
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