its possible knowing how at times irrational and unpredictable revolutions and public uprising can be.
the iran revolution itself was never intended to be a islamic revolution it gradually morphed into islamic revolution, in the beginning its was a coalition of interest groups which included islamist, Marxist and nationalist but in the end the islamist commanded the heights of the uprising.
in a other case the Tiananmen Square incident started as a student disaffection which had it origin in a dispute over African student dating a ethnic Chinese girl, but overtime the whole thing turned into a pro democracy thing.
The thing that will happen if the west trays to damage control is it will automatically empower anti western forces who will gain the public support what ever ideology they hold, and remember the Tunisian had years of experience of state grafting and institutional management like the Iranians meaning if this whole thing becomes a anti western thing, the west will be in bad situation for a long time because like the Iranians the Tunisians gained the mechanical know how of institutional state crafting from the west when they where secular western originated state.
So far sarkosy has learned from history and refused the Tunisian president asylum. Sarkosy has redirected the Tunisian prez to Saudi Arabia, but has Mr Sarkozy unintentional spread the wildfire because the Saudis are now in the spotlight and I recon their people are watching this through the mass media in their own country with a empathetic view since this is not a alien country but a arab brotherly country and those type of emphatic wildfires are the worst.
remember the colour revolutions of former soviets republics and how they spread and how others in semiliar sitution replicated it(those revolutions where not organic like the tunisians because they had great deal of foreign hands init but how others emulated was based on emphaty)
what ever comes out of this it requires Consolidation Through Institutionalisation and keep key state organs intacts like the millitry and goverments civil servents, but knowing the nature of greater arabs you can forget about them Consolidating a islamist gains with out squabling and infighting and reactionary responses to onfolding events weather geopolitics or as basic as keeping law and order
