Reply #4: B.S.

[bhikkhu]

The majority of the instability the article talks about is caused by the miserable governments of the region. We can take some blame for that, as current conditions metastasized out of the various agreements and arrangements ending colonialism, which handed over too many people to ridiculous local autocrats, but currently the reform movements are almost entirely native and democratic. Its not all about Obama - its about people sick and tired of tyranny and lack of opportunity.

Articles of this kind are just another variety of western ethnocentrism - believing that no one can accomplish anything and nothing in the world can happen without the west pulling the strings. In this case, its not about us, get over it!