Beware of ‘right wing’ genie

Over the past few months we have witnessed a repeat of a now familiar process of regime change.

Remember the ‘Pro Democracy’ protests in Libya? As the demonstrations against the regime became more violent the West supported and encouraged the demonstrators by US and EU diplomatic condemnations of the state, by sanctions and by massive pro demonstrator propaganda in our public and privately owned media.

They armed and trained the rebels and gave them NATO bombing back-up. When the Libyan government fell it emerged that the ‘Pro Democracy’ forces were in fact not pro democracy at all, they were Muslim fundamentalists seeking a theocratic state and they were very anti-Western. Something similar happened in Syria. The West enabled the build-up and arming of forces that could topple a non western regime, even though those forces were strongly anti-Western. This let a violent genie out of the bottle in the Muslim countries which has spread havoc ever since.