"The Arab world’s main problem is dictators who continue to be supported by foreign powers, and foreign powers bombing them when they cease to be useful. The problematic Western interventions, past and present, will remain controversial and dangerous.

When they are financed by Saudi petrodollars, they are even more problematic, serving the interest of a lethal repressive regime rather than the suffering people of Syria."

— Madawi al-Rasheed

"Problematic" and "controversial"? This is what I call liberal academic correctness; not calling a spade a spade.