"Even worse, the transition can backslide into just another authoritarian regime"

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Saturday there are risks with democratic transition in the Middle East, such as of chaos, a return to authoritarianism or the advent of “extremism”.
  
"Even worse, the transition can backslide into just another authoritarian regime," Clinton told the Munich Security Conference in Germany. "Revolutions have overthrown dictators in the name of democracy, only to see the political process hijacked by new autocrats who use violence, deception, and rigged elections to stay in power, or to advance an agenda of extremism," she said.