As part of his argument that President Obama deserved an "F" on foreign policy, Mitt Romney recently said, "the Arab Spring has become the Arab Winter." This seasonal metaphor, with its implied freezing of the hopes of last year's revolutions, has become widespread in recent months as Islamist parties have proven to be the strongest political force across the region, as the chaos in Egypt surrounding this weekend's presidential elections has intensified, and as the bloody crackdown in Syria has continued, finally forcing the United Nations to suspend their monitoring mission. But all of the talk of winter misses a more fundamental meaning of "Arab Spring," a term originally coined in the West but which is now obscuring our collective understanding of what is occurring in the Middle East -- and beyond, including in the United States. "Spring" ought to imply not just a temporary seasonal warming, but more fundamentally an "upwelling" of waters now thawed after a long, autocratic winter. Across the Middle East, these turbulent waters of change are continuing to stream ahead.

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