This is a guest post by Ahmed Dinnerjacket
It is becoming increasingly difficult to takes some of the more dogmatic left-wing commentators seriously these days, especially when it comes to foreign policy. Whether it be Seamus Milne at the Guardian, Robert Fisk at the Independent or Mehdi Hassan at the New Statesman, their op-ed pieces tend to follow the same predictable rules, which are:
a) The West is always wrong
b) Outspoken enemies of the west always deserve our sympathy
c) The vast majority are on our side
Take this latest piece from Mehdi states:
“The easiest and quickest way to expose the hypocrisy of our government’s, and the wider western world’s, professed support for democracy and freedom in the Arab world is to say just two words: Saudi Arabia.”
Then, after pasting an extract from the BBC’s website about the Saudi crackdown on internal protestors, Mehdi states:
