edit: accidentally submitted too early, sorry.<p>Syria was fairly stable until its people made demands and their leader responded with gun fire. Not sure where you see the role of &quot;the West&quot; in that escalation. Do you think the problem was that the West sneakily infected Syrian people with the absurd idea that they could have the same rights as people elsewhere? Or maybe that the West failed to support Syrian rebels when they begged for it, allowing Assad to go on fighting his people for years and IS and other jihadist groups to gain ground in the country?