Time for Europe to really take care of its backyard in the MENA.<p>Its policy of supporting despots and tyrants, the latest of which was Sisi of Egypt ,to contain the radicals and terrorists, that they engender with their oppressive policies on an industrial scale, has to change course soon.<p>Time for the European leaders to have some faith in the people of the region that they would make a better future for themselves (Tunisia as an example) and not fall victim to perpetual and vicious cycle of violence as they fear or have led to believe.<p>I know that Europeans are in a very precarious situation between a rock and a hard place where they know that tyrants are using them and holding the security of their southern border as hostage and that they have to turn a blind eye to their sytemic repression and prosecution of opposition in exchange of not having to worry about taking considerable and resource draining measures to secure the borders but on the other hand these very tyrants have set domestic policies and failing economic programs that are breeding more and more of these terrorists and desperate people by the day that they are no longer can contain and put on leash i.e. increase in aggregate numbers and the hit ratio for terrorists, not to mention that this plays in the tyrants&#x27; hands increasing the leverage they have worsening the awful even more.<p>Like with the movement to decriminalize&#x2F;legalize marijuana in the west, it&#x27;s time for Europeans to exert more influence to legalize the aspirations and legitimate demands of people in the MENA region for living in a true democracy and free society and not be intimidated by the threats of tyrants and despots.<p>Time to operate on this ever-swelling cyst in the region before it explodes in everyone&#x27;s face and infect everything that it touches. I know that it will be very messy and painful esp in the beginning but as we say here and I paraphrase &quot;Going through pain for an hour is better than having it every hour&quot;<p>Help us to help you.