[Askel5]

You think?

I think they'd have had to invent it (sorta like they did ...) for the West to wreck itself with all due confidence that it was always choosing the "lesser evil" for the "greatest good".

Self-delusion en masse.

[KDD]

I would like to think the disparate results are "unintended consequences" of what were well intentioned policies. But I am not naive. Power is the currency of our policies. As long as there is a U.N., and we are members of it we'll probably keep biting ourselves in the butt.