In addition, when I complain that Europe tacitly supported the Algerian military's suspension of the electoral process, your position seems to be that it was fine (what else could we have done?) and that the civil war and its hundreds of thousands of dead and exiled in the 1990's was an acceptable detour on the road to democratisation since the end result has been free elections with no strong islamist parties in the last 5 years.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. — Euripides