THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Britain and the US have contributed to instability in the Middle East by supporting autocratic regimes that suppress human rights, David Cameron has said.
The Prime Minister said that popular uprisings now flaring across the Middle East showed the West had been wrong to support dictators and oppressive regimes.
Speaking to the Kuwaiti Parliament, Mr Cameron said Britain would back democracy campaigners seeking greater rights across the Middle East.
"History is sweeping through your neighbourhood," he said. "Not as a result of force and violence, but by people seeking their rights, and in the vast majority of cases doing so peacefully and bravely."
Britain and other Western countries supported Hosni Mubarak, ousted by protests in Egypt. They have also backed authoritarian regimes in the Gulf region, making few efforts to push allies towards democratic reform.
That approach was wrong and counter-productive, Mr Cameron said. Read on and comment >>> James Kirkup, in Kuwait City | Tuesday, February 22, 2011
My comment:
Cameron's diapers must be in the wash. And where is that cotton wool? I have the urge to wipe dry the back of his ears!
Does this man seriously think that the Palestinians are ever going to be satisfied with a two-state solution? Does he seriously think that the Muslim Arabs, still less the Palestinians, would ever be satisfied to have Jerusalem as the capital of both a future Palestine and Israel. I know the guy smokes cigarettes. But he must have been smoking something much stronger on this occasion! And doesn't he know that not only Iran, but also the Palestinians and most other Arabs want to see the back of Israel altogether? This man is living in cloud cuckoo land!
And what is all this nonsense he is speaking in Kuwait about authoritarian régimes? Does he not realise that Saudi Arabia, Kuwait's neighbour, is the arch-autocratic régime? And what about the state he is speaking in? Does he believe Kuwait to be the bastion of democratic values?
Come on, Mr. Cameron! Get real! Start living in the real world! – © Mark
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