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    > Not all cultures are the same

No. The one in question armed the IRA and friends, blew up an American civilian airliner over Scotland, and shot a British police officer who was protecting their embassy. Babes in the wood.

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so west disposed of him only to create proper civil war in that country, with ISIS cells and in the end, kill at least tens of thousands indirectly, still counting.

way to go west! something about lesser evil and whatnot

When people begin by describing Westerners as too noble and too high-minded that they're taken advantage of by other cultures, your comment will be on fleek. Until then, the originating comment smacks of Enlightenment-era anti-Semtisim with the roles reversed.

Sorry, but this is so reductive that it descends into prejudice.

The Gadhaffi regime is to blame for all of these things; pinning them on 'Libyan culture' is not even wrong.

I'm not sure what else to say. Please consider editing this comment; I'm sure it was poorly worded as a response to the original poster, and you don't actually mean this.

I mean this. A facile defence of a whole nation on the basis that they aren't sufficiently savvy or worldly wise and the mean Westerners took advantage of their trusting nature is as offensive as - and shown to be as such by comparison with - an equally reductionist counter point. It's simply the grossly offensive "noble savage" idea rehashed.

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