Libya isn’t a reason to not intervene in Syria

It is right that “the West,” particularly France and the UK, should be held responsible for the sins of colonialism and for the chaos in the Middle East which resulted from the imposition of arbitrary borders in the wake of the Great War.

However, it must be remembered that fundamentalism in an Islamic context is not new. Indeed, the modern jihadist movement cannot be understood without reference to Wahhabism, the state religion in Saudi Arabia.

The foreign policy of “the West” had nothing to do with the origin of Wahhabism, since the French Revolution had not yet happened, and America did not exist, when Abd al-Wahhab met Muhammad bin Saud.