The US State Department has assumed that generous diplomatic and financial gestures could induce the violently volatile Middle East to abandon anti-Western fanatic ideologies and adopt Western values, such as peaceful coexistence, good faith negotiation, democracy and human rights.
However, the State Department's well-intentioned policy has fueled Middle East violence, generating tailwinds to rogue entities and headwinds to the US and its Arab allies.
For example:
*The State Department welcomed the turbulence on the Arab Street – which erupted in 2010 and is still raging from the Persian Gulf to northwest Africa –as "the Arab Spring," "Facebook and youth revolution" and a "March for peace and democracy."
However, as evidenced by Middle East reality, it has been another tectonic Arab Tsunami, not an Arab Spring.
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