Summary
IT'S quite simply a case of double standards, insist the critics. Why, when we seem so willing to intervene in Libya, are we slow off the mark to do the same in the likes of Syria where a fledgling pro- democracy movement is finding itself bludgeoned by an autocratic regime?
Perhaps from the outset I should point out that those quick to flag up this apparent discrepancy almost invariably come from that same knee-jerk school of simplistic left-wing thinking that persists in seeing everything we do in the Middle East as conspiratorially motivated by our desire for oil.See the full content of this document
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West Can't Sit in the Shade As the Arab Spring Hots Up
While I'd be the first to admit that much of the West's historical decision making on whether to intervene politically or militarily in the region has had much to do with our need for the black gold, these days it's far from the whole story.
Democracy, too, or at least the desire for it, has also b...See the full content of this document
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