Tunisia is an exception to the rule. Name one other place where overthrowing a secular dictator led to a better outcome in the Middle East? This includes Iraq and the US trying to overthrow Saddam as well. All attempts by the West to direct "democratic forces" have been unmitigated failures that have resulted in instability, terror, and islamism. Egypt thankfully came back from the brink under this military government, but the violence and instability and multiple coups there could have been avoided if the US didn't aid Muslim brotherhood and "democratic protestors" to begin with. Innocent Egyptian lives, many christian and muslim minority lives, could have been spared, but I guess who cares right? Libya is a failed state after the overthrow of Gadaffi which was funded and supported by the west through airstrikes and special forces support, now it is just a weapons trafficking center for islamic radicals going into Syria and Iraq. Iraq and Syria are on the brink and just starting to potentially stem the tide a bit, but that is no thanks to the West funding Islamists and "moderate rebels" in Syria to overthrow Assad, who just give their arms to ISIS, this on top of the fact that overthrowing Saddam for "democracy" in the first place led to this power vaccuum that islamists have now filled. There is a dangerous price to pay for promoting "democratic revolution" and nation building.