This political cartoon displays the Arab Spring. It shows Uncle Sam watering a young tree which refers to America helping Arabic Nations. It seems like Uncle Sam is just harmlessly helping and not sensing that anything is going wrong. The tree begins to bear fruit. The fruit symbolizes the problematic things happening in the Middle East. These things will later grow to be huge problems and will "explode" like the bombs depicted in the cartoon. Uncle Sam, representing America, runs away because he does not want to be caught up in all of the commotion happening there.