It's been five years. Tunisia's Ben Ali forced to flee. Egypt's Mubarak would follow three weeks later. But civil war has supplanted the Arab Spring in Libya, Syria and Yemen, a coup in Egypt brought back the old guard, and old Sunni-Shia divides are in the headlines with the Saudi-Iranian standoff.
Today as authorities scramble in Indonesia after the bombings, did popular movement by the younger generation in the Arab world lead to Isis striking in places like Paris, Istanbul and Jakarta?
