"Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve & hope without an object cannot live."

(Shadow writer's pseudo: Al Walid bin Talal)Bahrain?

"...The results were essentially the same after the toppling of regimes in Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. So capricious were the new revolutionary regimes in their arbitrary rule that many of their subjects came to pine for their colonial masters, who at least observed a modicum of fidelity to cherished Western political precepts and hallowed legal norms...
If there is a lesson to be learned from the Arab Spring, it is that the winds of change that are now blowing in the Middle East will eventually reach every Arab state. Now is therefore an opportune time, particularly for the Arab monarchical regimes, which still enjoy a considerable measure of public goodwill and legitimacy, to begin adopting measures that will bring about greater participation of the citizenry in their countries' political life....
Without such a commitment, peoples' hopes will eventually be dashed. As Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote (here it comes) in one of his sonnets, "Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve. And hope without an object cannot live."