Why Is the American media so hellbent on pointing fingers. but become silent when it comes to allies?

[Mr Khan]

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ArnoldRimmer said:

In his well-known book "clash of civilizations", Samuel Huntington states that hypocrisy and double standards are ultimately inevitable side-effects of the west's "universalism":

"Hypocrisy, double standards, and "but nots" are the price of universalist pretensions. Democracy is promoted, but not if it brings Islamic fundamentalists to power; nonproliferation is preached for Iran and Iraq, but not for Israel; free trade is the elixir of economic growth, but not for agriculture; human rights are an issue for China, but not with Saudi Arabia; aggression against oil-owning Kuwaitis is massively repulsed, but not against non-oil-owning Bosnians. Double standards in practice are the unavoidable price of universal standards of principle."

Hmm maybe I will reread Clash of Civilizations.  I remember not being a big fan of it in school.  I know I didn't like Fukyama "End of History" and it's kind of a response to that.

Both viewpoints are wrong. Fukuyama because he didn't recognize that much of the supposed "free markets" and "liberal democracy" in the developing world after the end of the Cold War were really neither of those things. I tend to agree that modes of government will reach a singularity as time goes by, but the Post Cold War world was not the beginning of the end of history. There is still much to be written before things settle in that direction.

Huntington believes deeply that cultural differences make the western mode of government mostly untenable in areas beyond Western Europe (and even within Western Europe there are contentions, according to him, due to the Catholic/Protestant divide). I find this largely to be a load of malarkey, in that while culture has had a tremendous impact on where we are and where we're going, economics is what determines the dominant order of the day. Traditional government (monarchies/theocracies and their ilk) were swept away by modern state systems: democracy, military rule, and various one-party systems, and this was because of changing economic modes. As the world "flattens" economically, so the world shall normalize politically.