In the Middle East and North Africa, Putin continued—meaning Iraq and Libya—“aggressive foreign interference has resulted in a brazen destruction of national institutions,” along with “violence, poverty, and social disaster,” and a climate where “nobody cares a bit about human rights.” Instead of democracy, bloodshed and fanaticism had filled the vacuum, he said, and the greatest threat to world order today was ISIS, which was born of and flourished in the wreckage of states dismantled by unchecked American power.I'm no Putin apologist, but I'm hard-pressed to find much to disagree with in his words, as reported. In fact, ISIS does flourish "in the wreckage of states dismantled by unchecked American power."
It is accurate to say of today's Iraq and Libya "aggressive foreign interference has resulted in a brazen destruction of national institutions,” along with “violence, poverty, and social disaster,” and a climate where “nobody cares a bit about human rights.” An honest observer might well conclude each is worse off than before the U.S. intervened.
