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Toppling the dictators is literally why we have the current situation. I have no idea where you were during the Blair years, but apparently you refuse to acknowledge that Saddam, Gaddafi, and Assad were able to prevent radical Islamists from rising in their own lands. Without them, we have the current situation.
I don't agree with PFH on the need to remove Middle Eastern dictators and I think it's chauvinistic to believe the ME's problems are our responsibility, but Assad is still in power and his regime wasn't able to stop the rise of jihadist factions like Al-Nusra in Syria, If anything the Assad regime just made things worse by firing on unarmed protesters and sparking the civil war. Portions of Yemen have also been taken over by Al-Qaeda and the Yemeni government is backed by the US.