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When will the West admit that it has been wrong all along in its illusion that Islamic societies can be politically and socially transformed, and forced to love freedom, tolerance, respect for the law, democracy and human rights?
Wishful thinking, money, and sometimes Western invading armies have been useless when trying to influence societies that are entrenched in traditions thousands of years old.
Stephen Glover of The Daily Mail has the courage to admit it openly: There are no good guys to run those countries. They were better off with their old tyrants than with the violent chaos unleashed by regime change. Mr Glover, however, stops short of mentioning the Palestinians.
Why is it that the West considers terror objectionable - unless it is used by Palestinians to kill Jews, and then it becomes an act by 'militants' or 'freedom fighters' in their quest for independence?
Photo above shows Palestinians in their habitual explosions of rage and destruction. There is not even an inkling that this society can rule itself in the foreseeable future. If it ever attains sovereignty it cannot even sustain itself economically. Regional superpowers will use them as pawns to disrupt the region, to wreak havoc with adversaries, and to destroy Israel, the only island of democracy in a region gone berserk.
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I’m afraid the bitter truth is Iraq and Libya were better off under the tyrants toppled by an arrogant and naive West
By Stephen Glover for The Daily Mail
The tragic events in Gaza and Ukraine may be dominating the news, but even more terrible things are happening in Libya and Iraq. In both cases a naive and stupendously ill-conceived Western foreign policy is almost entirely to blame.
Many western embassies in Tripoli, including America’s, have closed, with diplomats deserting the city as fast as their legs will carry them, leaving the Libyans to their fate. Britain retains only a reduced embassy staff.
Meanwhile, in the north of Iraq — a country allegedly delivered into freedom from Saddam Hussein in 2003 — a psychopathic organisation called Islamic State (previously known as ISIS) is executing thousands of Shia Muslims and Christians as the central government in Baghdad looks on, powerless to intervene.
The persecution of Christians
The largely untold story of the persecuted Iraqi Christian minority is especially shaming for those avowedly Christian leaders, George W. Bush and Tony Blair, who were responsible for the invasion of Iraq. For however revolting Saddam Hussein may have been, he did at least tolerate Iraq’s Christian community, which at one time was almost 1.5 million-strong. In the years following the invasion, the number of Christians dwindled to 300,000.
