Word to the Arabs

I keep going back and forth on the Libya thing and whether we ought to help the rebels. Here's the thing: don't mercilessly bash on America at every given opportunity and then expect our help when it suits you. Why do so many "liberal" Arab intellectuals criticize America and the West for X-Y-Z and then ask for our help? And when we give the help, they'll criticize the timing of it, the amount of it, the degree of it. It's really a no-win.

On the other hand, we have these autocrats like Mubarack, Qadaffi, etc, who are playing a double game by inflaming folks against us and then telling us - back off - you don't want those crazy people running things.

It really is a sick situation and I wish they didn't have all the oil.