And if you want to know why, you need to read When the Arab Spring Blooms in Paris and San Bernardino… wherein we find:

My view of the Arab “Spring” remains what it was five years ago. As I said to Megyn Kelly on live TV an hour after Mubarak resigned, this is the dawn of the post-western Middle East – and more broadly the post-American world. The “Facebook Revolution” went, predictably enough, the same way as the Iranian revolution: All the western-educated intellectuals come home and assure the world’s media that there’s nothing to worry about, the theocrats are pussycats. So in Egypt we were told that moderates like Mohamed el Baradei would get together and there was no chance of the Muslim Brotherhood coming to power, just as we were told in 1979 that Mehdi Bazargan et al would be calling the shots and Khomeini and the ayatollah had no real interest in governing. And then the moderates get shoved aside – as they were in Iran by the mullahs, and as they were in Libya by the tribal militias, in Egypt by the Muslim Brotherhood, in Syria by ISIS, in Yemen by the Houthi… And, even in Tunisia, where the “Spring” began, the tourist hotels are empty since the jihad boys gunned down Europeans sunbathing on the beach.

Tony doesn’t make it till the last para but it’s worth the wait. And I might add that the most notable aspect of this reference to Tony Abbott is that Mark Steyn, writing for a worldwide audience, can use Abbott’s name as a metaphor for a particular set of political beliefs and the actions that go with them. There really is no one else.