Thanks for the post! Respects.
Again, I guess the truth will come out eventually. It's just a pity that the Middle East countries are such a battleground for a multitude of parties. And in there is a good party that is not as self-interested and evil as the others, and has good in mind.
Unfortunately, there are two major problems with the ME. One is the major divisions that have existed along regional, ethnic and religious lines because of the long history of the region. As much as some people love to blame all of ME's problems on the Americans, the Brits or the French (or the Israelis), these division existed long before they came into the equation. The 2nd problem is the type of culture (or lack of education) that promotes the type of environment where arrogant and self-centered individuals come to power, most often through the exposition of these divisions in their own self-interest, rather than individuals who are able and willing to close these divisions in the interest of the populations they're serving.
If you read the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for example, you'll note that the Brits and the Americans were initially on the side of the Arabs. In 1949 a UN Resolution created a state of Palestine that was nearly twice the size that it is today. This is before the mass exodus of the Palestinian refugees. But the Arabs did not accept it, because Egypt, Syria and Jordan were all more interested in annexing those territories than creating a Palestinian state. Decades of conflict later and after a few major wars, more territory and more lives were lost and the Palestinians still don't have their own state and the whiners are still blaming everyone except the parties that were actually at fault!
If you look at the problems in Libya, Egypt, Iran (before 79 and even now), Syria, Iraq, etc. the problems are still centered around those ethno-religious divides and the people that are coming to power are still the same arrogant self-centered individuals that used to take power by force, even after "democratic" elections, Mursi is the perfect example of this. Until these leaders learn to start closing these gaps and mending these divisions, this region will be in a perpetual state of "Nazi Germany of 1939". If anything, the West always has and is still encouraging the parties in these countries to work with their opposition, regardless of how archaic or retarded that opposition may be, because that's the only way forward.
But unfortunately, the very same extroverted personalities that you see here in some of our friends, exist in most of the current leaders in the ME and this is exactly the reason why they support those leaders - because they can identify with them. The same personality that points the finger at foreign entities or others for sowing the divisions that they themselves should have fixed decades ago. If the IR for example had worked with secular or moderate forces in Iran in the past 35 years, it wouldn't need to call protestors "American, British and Zionist agents" - the standard line that was used by Gadhafi, it was used by Mubarak, it was used by Saleh and it is now being used by Assad to excuse their own shortcomings as leaders.