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In reply to the discussion: For all the cheerleaders who thought overthrowing Qaddafi was such a great idea [View all]AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)Can we all agree that Quafaffy and Assad are bad? Guess what - there are others that are worse. We picked a side because some folks told us what we wanted to hear. Guess what? They lied. There is no interest in that part of the world by and large in Western forms of government. By and large they just want their people in charge. If you got the votes you want democracy. If not they want a dictatorship by some in your tribe.
Western institutions are not universal. Something like a civil service system is alien.
Yet at the highest levels of goverment and academia they believe this fantasy that all peoples think like we do. This willful (and it is ideological and thus an article of faith - they will not change) ignorance has been causing problems for generations.