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The region has not been rid of, but merely traded one for another. The result will be the same in the end. You can't give this. People must want it. Do it themselves. It is one thing to help those fighting and another thing to have the hubris t think you can give it to them.
This is nonsense and always has been. You protestors and supporters all belong on the moon. Thee type slogans ignore the facts of the region. It is painfully and violently clear that they want and have always wanted a form of democracy. The problem, which you see everyday in the headlines, is that their tribes are unnaturally smashed together. The idea of democracy has to be figured out while they are coming to terms of living together under a system that doesn't use force and oppression to make them behave. The ultimate fix is to re-draw the borders. It is this that can't be forced. It is this that they have to do on their own. When it came to Saddam Hussein, it was the West that saw his rise. It was the West that maintained his rise under Cold War system of "stability." It was the West that supported his throne after the Gulf War rather than deal with the inevitable. And so it was the West that was responsible for finally getting rid of him after his population proved unable to free themselves.