Libya and the Left by Michael Berube

Pace Berube, my recollection is that the left and liberals were pretty quiet about the Arab Spring.* When Yglesias deigned to blog about it, he argued it was caused by rising commodity prices not freedom in Iraq. When the Green revolution was happening in Iran he actively trolled it. To me it wasn't entirely surprising because after Bush failed to find WMDs in Iraq he switched to the rationale of freedom and democracy in the Middle East.

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* one exception being Juan Cole.