It's our problem, actually, and we've made it theirs. It is the West that simultaneously wants "the Arab Spring" and "stability."  Democracy and strong government control.  Honest government and stable kleptocrats. Check out our split-brain reaction to the Palestinian Authority.  By rights, the U.S. should have nothing to do with people who venerate and pay for terror against civilians; teach their children that their country is "from the (Jordan) River to the (Mediterranean) Sea; rob donors and international agencies blind; jail people for their Facebook posts; hold office eight years after the end of a single elected term; refuse to seat an elected parliament; and refuse to acknowledge the permanence and legitimacy of America's ally, Israel.  And yet the U.S. treats Palestinian leaders as if they were diplomats, declines to close the PLO "embassy" in Washington, trains their police, maintains the functional...(Read Full Article)