Israel has been watching the “Arab spring” with some trepidation, according to Ted Koppel:

It is provocative, but not entirely inaccurate, to suggest that U.S. foreign policy these past few months has been sufficiently erratic to make America’s allies reconsider the degree to which we can be trusted—and our adversaries re-evaluate the degree to [...]

SecState Hillary Clinton has gone on the record to state that, despite being a tyrannical state sponsor of terrorism whose government is ruthlessly gunning down unarmed protesters in the street, Bashar al Asad’s Syria will be free from the kind of coalition attacks that have marked our foreign policy in Libya:

“No,” Clinton said [...]

Ordinarily, traffic moving east across the causeway linking Bahrain to Saudi Arabia is coming for liquor and Russians.

Not these days:

A Saudi-led military force crossed into Bahrain on Monday to prop up the monarchy against widening demonstrations, launching the first cross-border military operation to quell unrest since the Arab world’s rebellions began in [...]

Having spent the last two months in US hospitals and recovering abroad  – and the last three weeks trembling with the winds of regional change – Saudi King Abdullah returns home with an open hand:

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has announced increased benefits for his citizens, as he returned after months abroad getting medical [...]

The perceptive reader will note that your host was, if not cautiously optimistic about the people power victory over tyranny in Cairo, at least determined not to pre-judge the outcome their cynically. Who knows? Something better than Mubarak and his National Democratic Party might yet emerge.

Miracles happen.

But watching events unfold in tiny [...]