Kasz216 on 10 September 2010
I can't really think of a way to say this that won't come off as slightly insulting... but I'd guess it's because we have shit.
The middle east isn't Africa, but it isn't Europe or America either in most cases.
It's easier to let stuff go when you're relativly well off. When you have shit you can roll stuff off better and then claim moral superiority. It's all about claiming moral superiority because shit like that is less important to us because we've got playstations, steady food supplies, hardly any domestic terrorism, freedom of expression/voting etc.
