The Broken Middle

We will leave aside (because, on this happy occasion, we can) NATO's Turkey. We will leave aside the EU's Cyprus. We will leave aside Lebanon. We will leave aside Iran, where, because they can, they voted against the instructions of the BBC, so the ballot must have been rigged. We will leave aside the Palestinian Territories, because they don't exist. No, we need concern ourselves with none of those. Rather, if Israel is "the only democracy in the Middle East", then what the hell was the "liberation" of Iraq all about?