Potomac Institute for Policy Studies Senior Fellow Amb. David Smith (Ret.), is a foreign policy and security expert who runs the Georgian Security Analysis Center in Tbilisi.  In a column for the Georgian publication Tabula, he writes about the political upheavals taking place in the Middle East and the uncertainty about what comes next.  Writes Amb. Smith,"...some analysts fear that today’s euphoria in the city squares will tomorrow yield to reality: protestors united only by frustration with extant regimes, the tenacity of entrenched power structures and rising prices. With clever maneuvering, a few concessions and some repression, many of the old dogs might just survive...Or, radical Islam could be waiting in the wings." Click below to read the article in full.