[marrs]

Syria is not a good example for you to pick. She borders Iraq, a place where the US absolutely and directly interfered with catastrophic consequences. The uprising described in the Wikipedia article was a part of the "Arab Spring", which was strongly encouraged by the US and certainly not discouraged by the West.

The west was involved in other ways as well. It was widely reported in Egypt at the time of the Egyptian uprising that Amnesty International were directly helping the Muslim Brotherhood rise to power in the country - something they succeeded in doing. I remember at the time the BBC describing them as moderate and misunderstood people. They must have been fed that line from somewhere because if they had cared to spend 10 minutes researching the MB for themselves, they would have quickly discovered that they were the radical and extremist cult Mubarak said they were; something they went on to prove for themselves with devastating effect after they rose to power. My guess is that the BBC reports were coming from AI.

Whilst I'm on the subject of Amnesty International, I did a quick search on https://www.amnesty.org for "Muslim Brotherhood" (to try and find articles to back up my claims) and found some very revealing articles they published about the MB's struggles in Egypt and I also found the following news article [1] accusing one of their directors of having direct ties to the organisation.

So... I guess what I'm saying is that this is all very complicated. No, the West aren't to blame for everything that's gone wrong in the Middle East, but we don't need to run to the opposite end of the spectrum and pretend they have clean hands either.

[1] https://www.rt.com/uk/312630-amnesty-international-muslim-br...