if i'm Obama, i'll let the middle east be. Facebook and Twitter have reached the young Arabs. let them play for awhile, if the respective govt. kill their respective youths, then that's their prerogative.

either way, that will only deepen the desire to remove the dinosaur dictators of middle east in their own way. and all the West had to do was to invent google, facebook and twitter. they don't even have to spend war logistics pa, just guard the gulf area of spill overs to other continents and the world will be safe. safe from WWWIII. sometimes doing nothing is the best recourse

democracy is on it's way in the middle east, that is something that we should all look forward to. though at an early / infant stage, let's all just go with the flow. the price of freemdom /democracy is always riddled with dead young idealists.