A while ago, the Western World applauded as President Mubarak and his army junta was removed from power in Egypt, to be replaced by a democratically elected president. Unfortunately for the West, the new man was an ardent Muslim who took little notice of the almost 50% of the population who didn't vote for him.
Today we hear that President Morsi has been removed from office by the army in order to quell the rising tide of protest and violence in the country. The Western nations appeal for calm and a return to democracy in their usual whining tones.
One has to hope that, one day, the Western World will come to realise that the "one size fits all" approach to the world does not work, even when it's democracy that we're talking about. Countries like Egypt, and the other largely Muslim nations of the Middle East, have yet to reach a level of development at which democracy can even begin to work; their people are generally very poor, uneducated and highly factious; there is little cohesiveness in their societies and the best form of government for most of them is a benign dictatorship. Forget democracy.
Sadly, such an approach doesn't seem to be on the cards. Instead, we press on blindly, trying to impose a style of government on Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Afghanistan and the rest, which simply will not work. All that will happen is another round of upheaval, followed by another and another, ad infinitum. However, it occurs to me that this may be what the Western nations, or some of them, want; it gives them the opportunity to train their armed forces in proxy wars against Russia and China. Unfortunately, those of the afflicted nations who want something else are not clever enough to understand that it's all just a game, and they see the US, the UK and others as enemies to be defeated, hence we have the potential for 'terrorist' attacks on our streets.
They do say that "what goes around, comes around". Ho-hum.
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