几十年来，西方列强一直支持着阿拉伯世界的军事统治，有意忽略它们对民主运动和权利的系统性镇压，以确保伊斯兰教不会赢得权力。
For decades, Western powers backed military regimes in the Arab world, willingly ignoring their systematic repression of democratic movements and rights, in order to ensure that Islamists did not gain power.