[Igottago]

Originally Posted by polak

I doubt it ever happens. Most of the population doesn't want it to happen.

We need to stop assuming that everyone wants to be in the same boat as us. All we can do is hope that we can facilitate an option to leave that place for those that want too. Honestly, in my ideal world (and maybe this is offensive, I don't know) we would practice almost complete isolation with the countries in the middle east that refuse to adhere to 100% seperation of church and state. We will never be on the same page or able to understand how the other side justifies what they are doing. Hearing about the religious antics just angers us and breeds hate and fear. All I would like to see in terms of western intervention is somehow ensuring the freedom to leave these countries for those that want to.

Obviously that won't do anything to fight terrorism (besides maybe pacifying the groups that are against western intervention) but I don't think the interaction of our two very different worlds produces anything but negative results.

All of this is obviously uninformed opinion.

The people that don't want it to happen are the people that are using their religious ideology as a means to cling to power. The Arab spring is an example that there is a thirst for freedom.

No one will ever live in complete isolation, that's just not reality. And its never been western policy to simply leave those parts of the world alone.