Assad, Al-Sisi and pro-Russian Separatists in Eastern Ukraine have all shown us what GOP strategists have known for years; that democracy still works, so long as you only let the right people vote. Meanwhile, the military government of Egypt sentences pro-democracy demonstrators to death by the hundreds, while everyone from liberals to scholars to journalists to TV characters are dragged off the streets. The army is firmly back in control.
In Syria, the situation looks to be well in hand for the Assad regime. While rebels still control large swaths of the country, they are retreating on several fronts, and are advancing nowhere. The critical mass has come and gone, and Syria’s foreign allies made sure that Assad survived until the wave crested, and began to recede. It will be a long, brutal process, and the insurgency will never disappear altogether, but the armed uprising is in recession, and I don’t see how the momentum can possibly change again.
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