I could be wrong here, but they kicked off the Arab spring and so far seem to be the only ones that have descended into Islamism. As far as middle eastern countries go, Tunisia seems like a good one to set an example.

On the mark.

Edit: well, after writing this, I hope you don't mind if I point that Tunisia is not middle east and that you probably wanted to write "haven't" ;)

>As far as middle eastern countries go, Tunisia seems like a good one to set an example.

Except Tunisia isn't in the Middle East, it's in North Africa; which is as eastern geographically as Western Europe and as similar to the Middle East in terms of culture and way of life because of shared religion as the U.S. is similar to Peru.

Really different cultures and world views.