AS'AD ABUKHALIL:
"There are many reasons why Western governments cannot be trusted in their intervention in Libya. The Arabs are defying decades-long stereotypes about their passivity and fatalism, and yet the entire Western club seems intent on preserving the Arab tyrannical order that has served its political, economic and military interests. Saudi Arabia and Egypt were the linchpins of the American regional system. It is not that democracy cannot be imposed from outside—as liberal critics of George Bush often put it—but the notion that Western governments ever pushed for democracy and enlightenment in the Middle East is dubious at best."
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