The West worked hard to bring democracy to middle east. Yet the result appears to be too clear to be doubtful. The middle east was probably better off with its dictators. And the reason for such a result is also not so very difficult to perceive.
The middle eastern world is a different world. It should not be judged on the same scale as the rest or the west of the world. The majority of the middle easterners are those who, since their early childhood have been brought up only to believe what their religion tells them, or their religious teachers tell them or what their leaders tells them or what their male heads in the family tells them. In a world where everything that one has to do comes from an external source often times not very reliable, it prepares a very very conducive environment for dictatorships to germinate and grow.
People there have ultimately become seasoned at obeying others and indeed obeying unconditionally without questions and complaints (another good factor for dictatorships to be successful) They never got the opportunity to develop their ability to decide, ability to choose or the ability to use their reason and logic. They only saw what they were told to see, they only heard what they were told to hear, they only spoke what they had been told to speak, they even felt and thought what they had been told to. As such only dictatorship was bound to be successful because it told them what to do. In the absence of that external source, they crumble like walls of sand.
I may be wrong in my thinking but I celebrate the fact that I can think at all...
