FOUR years after the beginning of what is now called the Arab spring only in a tone of bitter irony, almost all the countries involved are in a dire state. The sole exception is tiny Tunisia. For a while, things seemed to be improving in its sprawling oil-rich neighbour, Libya, too. But Libya is slipping fast—and its chaotic decline, like that in Syria, is already drawing in outsiders and posing a threat to the West.
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