I heard this from Jubran `Urayji, former leader of the Syrian Social National Party of Lebanon, in an interviw on New TV. The man is not dogmatic and distinguished between three dimensions of the "Arab spring": 1) there is the obvious dimension of people versus their regimes; 2) the dimensions of regimes versus regimes, and can be seen in Libya and Syria; 3) the dimension of people versus people within the same country.