Tunisia is blessed , compared to other Arab Spring countries. Its military has largely stayed out of domestic political affairs, and its civilian population has avoided wholesale revolutionary violence and armed revolt. In addition, the governmental and bureaucratic apparatus created by former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, unlike those in Libya and Egypt, did not completely collapse. In fact, the outgoing transitional Ennahda government was able to pass a 2014 budget and amended finance law late Nov. 18, even though passage was delayed by weeks of negotiations. Moreover, the country's economic operations went largely uninterrupted because business and industrial leaders never really left, and basic social services have mostly continued. But this relative stability belies the more serious challenges facing Tunisia. Since Ben Ali's ouster, the country's military and security forces have increasingly found themselves at odds with the new political order.