TheGrumpyGeeljire wrote:Sahangalbeed, with all due respect you have been thoroughly misinformed by your news sources. America is not and will never be a world leader in human-rights and democracy. It is a nation that has interfered with disastrous effect in the affairs of many once peaceful and prosperous nations.
Was Iraq better in terms of global security under Saddam Hussein ? yes . Were the people of Iraq living a life of freedom and equality and Saddam Hussein ? no !
Was Lybia better under Qaddafi for global security , if we forget the bombing of a Pan Am jumbo jet in Scotland, yes . Were the people of Lybia betteroff ? I don't think so or the whole Eastern part of the country would not have risen .
Was Syria better under al Assad when he ruled like a king ? yes . Were the people better off ? I don't know ask the muslim brothers who opposed his father and him .
What can a reasonable person conclude that America has to gain by making these countries less stable , countries in which terrorist groups that seek to hurt America take root subsequently ? what ? Nothing !!
What I believe is , America in a simplistic almost naive way look at the world in a struggle between good an evil . Look at Egypt , the right wingers in this country accused Obama of letting the Egyptian people settling their score with Mubarak . The United States supported the muslim brothers in the beginning , everybody was accusing Obama for being a " closeted" muslim , until the military took power when al Sisi declared that he didn't have time for "democracy experiments , while the security of his country was dissolving " .
In fact what I suspect happened is the military has always been an elite in Egypt since they deposed the king and these guys have replaced the aristocracy { money and land controlled by the generals in Egypt is big }
To make this shorter , we have reached a new era , where the man in the muslim world has a smart phone and through facebook can see the lives the people in Europe or America are leading and he wants the same thing . FREEDOM, EQUALITY and eventually prosperity .What I fear is that America after all the chaotic result of these uprising determine that nobody in the middle East is ready , that democracy is not for the muslims , when in fact it is a developmental process