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This commentary discusses the foreign policy thinking in the Mubarak Administration contra the Obama Administration in light of the Arab spring. Faced with popular protests in early 2011, Mubarak cautioned that if he gave up the presidency at that time, chaos would follow, and the feared Muslim Brotherhood rise to power. Overwhelmingly, the media and regional experts dismissed his claims as the fear-mongering of a dictator desperately clinging to his job. But since then, events seem to have proved him right and those who mocked him wrong.