Fresh impetus for Arab Spring

The approaching fall of Libyan ruler Muammar al-Gaddafi will give the Arab Spring a fresh boost, the liberal-conservative daily Corriere della Sera comments: "Despite the present uncertainty one must admit that French President Nicolas Sarkozy's intuition (or wager) is finally paying off. ... The fall of the Tripoli regime is a message to the entire Arab and Muslim world, and above all the young generation, which is better informed and more secular than we think: There is no going back now. This message should be robbing Bashar al-Assad in Syria of his already troubled sleep. A message that despite the differences in historical context brings to mind the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the communist world. Back then there was no going back either, even though the long and difficult transition to democracy still hasn't been fully completed in some of these countries."

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