An objection to some liberal editorializing I've seen on the Arab world's uprisings...

Lazy anti-Americanism is no guide to current events. Democracy has never flourished in the Arabic world. If not for the example of the United States, they would have little idea of what they are fighting for. And indeed, if not for the investments and contributions of the democratic West over the past century, most of them would have never even been born at all.