Many Americans are under the mistaken impression that the term "Arab Spring" is of recent provenance. Not at all. Way back in 2005, Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe wrote a column headlined "The Arab Spring."
"For those of us in the War Party, these are heady days," he wrote. "If you’ve agreed with President Bush all along that the way to fight the cancer of Islamist terrorism is with the chemotherapy of freedom and democracy, the temptation to issue I-told-you-so’s can be hard to resist."
Jacoby went on to quote the usual assortment of "neo" conservative politicians and pundits to the effect that a wave of democracy was about to sweep the Mideast and that this would be a wonderful thing for all concerned.
neocons "counterfeit conservatives" exposed
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