Scott--relative to your question, Do you honestly believe that a viable democracy can be installed in an Arabic world that has traditionally eschewed anything other than totalitarian regimes founded upon the Koran?

If I may bring in a historical perspective--the very same concept was applied to the nation building of Japan post WWII. How on earth can one establish a democracy in that culture, when it had been a Feudal Imperialistic culture for thousands of years? Well, it did. And history speaks for itself. (And it took longer than 4 years too!)

So relative to this current situation--I don't pretend to know how things will turn out. But history has set a precedent for such a change. And people, specifically those left of the isle, appear to be entirely ignorant of this reality.