Addressing shortfalls. Highlighting all that is positive and spectacular in the Arab Spring while at the same time ignoring the issues that have to be resolved and the difficulties to be overcome is the simplest and most convenient way of making everyone happy, when pointing out the difficulties and dangers is often seen as untimely and bad taste (see yesterday's column). The first path produces Bernard-Henry Levy-style pale, vapid panegyrics; the second recognises the courage and worth of...