"Makiya now says he believes the war contributed to the Arab Spring.
“People on the ground in Egypt and Syria don’t want to admit that there
was a connection, but something fundamental happened as a result of the
war—a culture and an ethos changed.” (Indeed, they will not admit it.
When Wael Ghonim, the Egyptian Google executive whose Facebook page
helped spark the Egyptian uprising, was questioned about the Iraq’s
War’s contributions, he said it contributed “not at all.”)"