Living in a Cold Country...

...I know that the arrival of spring can be a slow and terrible tease. Just when we think it has at last arrived, we get yet another blizzard. I expect the same will happen for the Arabs.

Governments scramble to deal with anti-government protests across the Arab world

Too many of the blizzards are blowing in from the West with their forgone conclusions about the rise of Islamist regimes to replace the autocratic secular ones.

But still, they should not look back. Summer is always just around the corner.