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  During the Kuwait war opposition and separatist groups in Iraq were left to their own devices by the Western powers that had encouraged them. Instead a country with a Christian foreign minister and a high percentage of women in education was later invaded and destabilised. Instead of supporting dissent and forcing an internal power change thousands were killed, maimed and set adrift from their country.
  
  In Libya Western powers have bombed a rebel faction into power, and we wait to see if the country hangs together or falls apart, while an upraising in Syria against an equally brutal regime has been denied any dubious assistance.
  
  Iran has a very vocal opposition and opposing factions and yet there is nothing as likely to quell dissent and polarise a population as much as an external threat.
  
  JFK once said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
  
  He also said, "We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."

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