- After 9/11 the paranoia of fundamentalist Islam has caused America to have a stereotype vision of the Arab countries being undemocratic. USA built its foreign policy with these countries based on this judgment.
- The “intelligence” services of the USA have not realized the unrest that built up in the region. If the intelligence services had read the signals properly, it would not have been a surprise for USA.
- Information technologies, like Twitter, Facebook and other social network tools and TV channels that are not controlled by the governments help the societies get together and form a revolt.
- The politics that USA governments have had so far tried to keep the area without problems for them but the cost of it was undemocratic ruling of their people.