The World Bank and IMF “maintain similar political economic orientation, including in compelling regional countries to apply the same policies that were at the root causes for the uprisings and even deepening them. They indeed still argue that large sectors of the economy are in need of privatisation, in favour of trade liberalisation and more favourable regulations to attract foreign investment, austerity measures, including halting subsidies… This is no different in Syria today .”
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51