Instead of propping up tyrants for short-term and often illusory gains , western policy needs to find ways of stimulating the forces in arab society that might eventually replace them .
Once that complacency was punctured in late 2008 , the apparently benevolent european cycle suddenly became vicious , turning out to be as short-lived and as illusory as the asset bubbles on which it was built .
If so , the vaunted " savings " of surplus countries will prove to have been illusory : vendor finance becomes , after the fact , open export subsidies .
如果出现这种情况,盈余国家所吹嘘的“储蓄”将是虚幻的:在事后,卖方融资成为公开的出口补贴。
Some of europe 's fiscal improvements were illusory , however .
然而欧洲的财政改善有些是虚幻的。
Just as the threat of weapons of mass destruction proved illusory in iraq , so the sinking of the battleship uss maine in havana harbour , the pretext for intervention in cuba , was not a spanish plot but , he insists , almost certainly a shipboard accident .