If you spend time talking to western officials about the uprisings in the Arab world, you are likely to hear two contradictory views advanced – sometimes by the same person. The first view is that the “Arab spring” is, as one European diplomat puts it, “the best thing that has ever happened in my lifetime in the Arab world”. The second is that this is the most dangerous moment in the Arab world in decades.
如果你和西方官员们聊一聊阿拉伯世界的大范围抗议活动，你会听到两种截然相反的观点——有时甚至来自同一个人。第一种观点认为：“阿拉伯之春”是“在我有生之年阿拉伯世界发生的最美好的事”（用一位欧洲外交官的话讲）。第二种观点则认为，这是数十年来阿拉伯世界最危险的时刻。
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