Anti-government protesters chant slogans as they march with national flags during a demonstration in the central Iraqi holy shrine city of Karbala on Jan. 26, 2020. Mohammed Sawaf/AFP via Getty Images
Since the “Arab Spring” began with protests in Tunisia at the end of 2010, there has been a ferment for change. So far, three dictators have been toppled—Hosni Mubarak and Mohamed Morsi in Egypt and Ben Ali in Tunisia—and have been replaced by interim governments (with a striking resemblance to the previous ones).
Michael Ledeen is freedom scholar at Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He has served as a consultant to the National Security Council and the departments of State and Defense, and as a special adviser to the Secretary of State. He is the author of 35 books, most recently “Field of Fight: How to Win the War Against Radical Islam and its Allies,” co-authored with retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn.
