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From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

Does the Arab Spring have a future after all?

Hello again, I'm Aeronalny, and this is a Memorial Day rebroadcast of To the Point from Public Radio International.

It's been five years since popular uprisings toppled dictators in Egypt and other Arab countries.

Except in Tunisia, democracy has not taken hold. Egypt's new military regime may be worse than the old one.

Libya is in chaos. Millions of Syrians are fleeing civil war. In 2011, diverse groups were able to unify after years of repression only to be

divided again by their different interests and the need for order. But revolutions take time.

We'll talk with authors of two new books who say it's premature to declare that the Arab Spring

was a failure. Today's talking point, a new memoir by a civilian puts a mirror up to America's

longest running wars. First, the news.

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Five years later, the Arab Spring is more often called the Arab uprising.

Instead of producing new democracies, rebellions have led to renewed repression and chaos.

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