Attitude of the USA Towards Arab Revolutions in 2011: Egypt and Libya as an Example

Abstract

The year 2011 was the decisive time between the silence and submission of Arab people toward deteriorating situations and their uprisings to regain their looted rights. Tunisia was the first as its young people revolted against Zein AL-Abdeen Bin Ali who wanted to stay until the day of death. Then, the revolution of Egypt come which may be considered the most important since Egypt was always the inspirer for Arab people in all fields. As for Libyan uprising, the harsh response by Muwamar AL-Qaddafi was the reason to change the revolution from peaceful to armed one, beside that it was with an international intervention. While, the result of the Syrian revolution is still not definite, but history would not go backwards. The Yemen revolution was alittle different, especially after Saudi-Gulf intervention which safed a way out for the former president Ali Abdullah Salih due to the Yemeni direct impact on Gulf states. With regards to the attitude of the USA toward Arab revolution, the American administration interacted with the developments but could not direct them.