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The '''Arab Spring''' of 2011-2012 was largely an anti-Western, anti-[[Zionist]] movement orchestrated by the [[Obama administration]] to topple [[secular]] regimes in the [[Arab]] world. As a journalistic euphemism, it was intended to evoke reminiscences of the 1968 [[Prague Spring]], or a peaceful demonstration against [[authoritarian]] rulers to bring about "socialism with a human face".  

The '''Arab Spring''' of 2011-2012 was largely an anti-[[Western civilization|Western, anti-[[Zionist]] movement orchestrated by the [[Obama administration]] to topple [[secular]] regimes in the [[Arab]] world. As a journalistic euphemism, it was intended to evoke reminiscences of the 1968 [[Prague Spring]], or a peaceful demonstration against [[authoritarian]] rulers to bring about "socialism with a human face".  

It was billed as an effort at [[democracy|democratitization]] in the Arab Middle East through regime change, along the lines of President [[George W. Bush]]'s 2003 [[Iraq war]] without using US troops. Ultimately it ended in a bloody and humanitarian disaster and led to the rise of the [[Islamic State]], eleven million dispossessed, in excess of 400,000 dead in [[Syria]], and the [[European migrant crisis]]. A corollary to the plan was to build the image of [[Secretary of State]] [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]] as a great world leader and statesman as Obama's successor.  

It was billed as an effort at [[democracy|democratitization]] in the Arab Middle East through regime change, along the lines of President [[George W. Bush]]'s 2003 [[Iraq war]] without using US troops. Ultimately it ended in a bloody and humanitarian disaster and led to the rise of the [[Islamic State]], eleven million dispossessed, in excess of 400,000 dead in [[Syria]], and the [[European migrant crisis]]. A corollary to the plan was to build the image of [[Secretary of State]] [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]] as a great world leader and statesman as Obama's successor.