It should be written like this:

“Dear Ben,

Even though your real intention was to keep long-term interest rates low (sorry that didn’t work out), your QE2 plan has accomplished in 6 months what decades of U.S. foreign policy couldn’t: the blossoming of Democracy across the Arab world.

Here’s how you did it:

Since you hinted at a $600 billion bond-buying program in August, the price of wheat has climbed as much as 28 percent. The price of corn, up 60 percent. Inflation in the developing world has spread like wild fire.

And while high unemployment and political oppression have always been a feature of life in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, a worldwide spike in the price of food was something not even Muammar Gaddafi could engineer. It turned out to be the straw (of wheat) that broke the camel’s back. So thank you.”

To many outside observers, the throngs of protests in Tahrir Square in late January seemed to come from out of nowhere. But the timing wasn’t so random, according to Philippe Gijsels, Head of Research at BNP Paribas Fortis Bank. “It’s very important to note what the catalyst has been: food inflation. Because, these governments have been in place 20, 30 years so it’s quite remarkable this is happening today,” said Gijsels in an interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box Europe.