Not that long ago Iraq, Syria, and Libya were three of the most prosperous and secular countries in the Arab world.
Then we brought them freedom and democracy.
What are they now?
Syria admittedly remains a work in progress, but it's not hard to see where things are going. The wholesale importation of al-Qaeda radicals into the conflict by Western proxies is ensuring that the country will be a shambles for generations.
The Islamist fighters in Libya are refusing to hand over their weapons for good reason. They understand full well that their revolution has been hijacked by an expat elite. That elite might be able to put on a show election every few years, but as the rout of the CIA control center in Benghazi a couple of weeks ago demonstrated, they have no control over anything in Libya other than the oil industry.
Between the West's support for that expat elite on the one side and the Libyan patriots on the other, Libya is destined to endure years if not decades of anarchy.
Ditto Iraq. The major difference being that our meddling has actually transformed Iraq from Iran's main adversary in the Arab world, to Iran's most important ally in the Arab world, an achievement that cost America thousands of lives and hundreds upon hundreds of billions of dollars.
Not content with those two success stories, the guardians of American Exceptionalism and the hordes of think-tankers who whisper in their ears have decided that Syria is ripe for freedom and democracy. The coordinated suicide attacks in Aleppo today have the al-Qaeda signature all over them. Flooding Syria with the very terrorists we have supposedly been fighting for a generation is a strategy that has blowback written all over it.
When that blowback arrives, when civilians in Europe or Israel or America again pay the price for the reckless and racist adventurism of our leaders, those same think tanks will be busy spinning theories about the clash of civilizations and why the primitive Arab hates our freedoms.
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