American dance with Arab dictators http://english.irib.ir/voj/analyses/commentaries/item/79779-american-dance-with-arab-dictators

Muslim uprisings have exposed the moral and even strategic bankruptcy of the western approach. The Muslim masses are giving the world an alternate model that is: a non-violent grassroots demand for pluralistic and transparent democracy. They are promoting it with nothing more than courage and Solidarity, only to defy the guns, bullets, tanks and tear gas supplied, in most cases, by the West.

There was no “Canadian street.” No “American street.” No “British street.” And No “French street,” but Arab public opinion, emanating in the Arab and Muslim countries street.In the middle of the glorious Muslim spring, the world people are instructed to keep their enthusiasm in check and ponder instead to say that democracy may not be part of the Arab DNA.For decades, Muslims have been denied democracy mostly by brutal regimes of the United States and Europe that financed and trained the dictators’ security set-ups.

Of the 22 members of the Arab League, eight are monarchies — Jordan, Morocco and the six members of the oil-rich Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC). They are all mostly American/western allies. They are described by the U.S. politicians as “moderate.” But they are tyrannies, in varying degrees. Six of them have used torture towards their dissidents.There are other autocratic states — Egypt, Yemen, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Sudan Authority. Most maintain torture chambers, which the U.S. has rented for so-called anti-terror interrogations.

All seven have had entrenched dictatorships, five of them western allies at some point or another (Hosni Mubarak, 30 years; Moammar Gadhafi, 42 years; Abdullah Saleh, 33 years; Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, 23 years. Saddam also belonged in that club until he invaded Kuwait in 1991.American friends, like itself, are all corrupt. The monarchs treat the state treasury as their own and won’t divulge the dividing line between state and personal funds. Others have found ways to monetize power and amass fortunes.The West helped deny democracy to the Arab Muslim countries in order to protect oil and ensure security for the Zionist regime of Israel.