Interesting revelations. As far as I understand the main reasons why people came here were their good intentions (expressed in popular progressive politics). Its followers armed with militant liberalism. How aristocratic.

"Only liberals really think. Only liberals are intellectuals. Only liberals understand the needs of their fellows." said one American author in 1984 and laughed at them in another book calling them radicals who crop up in every generation under many disguises. He continued: "Radicals always see matters in terms which are too simple - black and white, good and evil, them and us. By addressing complex matters in that way  they rip open a passage for chaos."

US under Clinton and EU under Barroso have fallen into trap of liberal radicalism and deserved rebuke from Russian FM Lavrov:
"I do not believe the West would be interested in seeing the Council of Europe become a place where just one out of many models of democracy would be made a criteria to judge each and every other state," he said. "The world is much more complicated. It's not black and white."

Liberalism has future only if it can restrain itself according to moral values which are boiled down to understanding that we are all humans whatever our ideological, ethnic or religious differences.

I have talked to many Westerners and found worrisome easiness they talked about punishment of whole nations for crimes committed by individuals. I recoiled when one Englishman said to me: Syrians were caught in Hariri murder, they should be punished. Not Assad, Syrians. Then comes the turn of Iranians, Russians, whatever.

Nobody can deprive us the right to judge everything what's going on in different countries however question about sources of credible information remains. Western media may be used cautiously as a source of information, too often it shows its prejudice, bias or credibility gap. Very possible local sources are of no better quality. The best way is travel or life in respective countries and even then it will be only subjective knowledge.

To share our subjective knowledge is the main reason why I came here.