Arab Spring, Western Fall
America’s reluctance to be drawn into the Libyan quagmire, and the West’s failure to intervene to stop the Syrian army from massacring civilians, now looks like a sad, and fairly accurate, guide to the future. The future is not one of Western non-interventionism, but of restraint, owing to the limits of US power.
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TEL AVIV – The old vocation of what Rudyard Kipling called the “White Man’s Burden” – the driving idea behind the West’s quest for global hegemony from the days of imperial expansion in the nineteenth century to the current, pathetically inconclusive, Libyan intervention – has clearly run out of steam. Politically and economically exhausted, and attentive to electorates clamoring for a shift of priorities to urgent domestic concerns, Europe and America are no longer very capable of imposing their values and interests through costly military interventions in faraway lands.