The former US President Jimmy Carter said that America did not invent human rights, the opposite is true, that human rights invented America. Human rights may remind us of democracy.
For long time, the American society glorified democracy as reason for its progress of civilization and economy. Democracy and human rights in America helped many people to restore their creativity and hard working for their own benefit as well as the American society.
Therefore, democracy became the religion of leaders of America that they preach all over the world. However, the American experience with the Middle East changed their point of view concerning exporting American democracy abroad.
The revolutions of the Arab Spring changed the point of view for the West. The Arab Spring may have removed few dictatorships, but replaced them with terrorist organizations in most of the cases. This brought many questions about the situation in the Middle East after Mubarak, Gaddafi, and Saddam.
On Monday, November 2nd, 2015 Los Angeles Times published a report on the opinion of Republican presidential candidates in the subject. For the first time, most of them said that the United States was wrong to get rid of these dictators.
The report says that many of them prefer to support, or at least to deal with dictators. This is exactly the opposite of US policy a decade ago. For example, Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz and Paul Rand announced that it was better for the United States if these dictators stayed at their places to prevent such chaos.
These views ignited disagreement in the Republican Party between those who advocate acceptance of dictators to prevent chaos and those who call to get rid of dictators which was adopted by George W. Bush and now supported by his younger brother Jeb Bush, the candidate for the presidency.
Such contrast appeared in the cooperation with the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at a time US is working to bring down dictators in other countries.
Donald Trump said that the world would have been much better if Gaddafi and Saddam were still in power. Iraq is now homeland for terrorists, but it has none before. This doesn’t mean that Saddam is a good person, but this means that he was better than the current situation.
The same opinion was adopted by Ben Carson, who said that Bush shouldn’t have invaded Iraq since Saddam did not pose any threat to the United States at that time.
Moreover, some Christian evangelical sects of Americans have shown their support to keep Bashar al-Assad in power to protect the Christian minority in Syria.
It’s clear that the current political situation and the competition between the presidential candidates in America brought such new ideas. However, such ideas may or may not develop to form the American policy. I believe it should giving the current circumstances.
