US double standard in Middle East

In view of the intervention in Libya by the US and other states, the daily Delo points to the suppression of democracy movements in other Arab countries and criticises the double standard of the United States: "Days ago US President Obama condemned the violence against civilians in the entire Middle East. But no one's getting hot in the collar about the despots in allied Bahrain - where the US Fifth Fleet is based - or in Yemen, a firm ally of Washington against global terrorism. It doesn't seem to bother anyone that the army of the worst dictatorship in the region, namely Saudi Arabia, has marched into a neighbouring country - very much in the style of the erstwhile Soviet escapade in Afghanistan. The people in Libya deserve more freedom. But the 'global justice fanatics' must also seek the same for those who continue to suffer under even more repressive dictators who are supposedly our friends."

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