If the region is full of despots, he points out, it is because the West long supported them.

Hopefully the West or the UN will support them.

"For the West to support this man," said the sheik, "is an insult to all Muslims."

Clay argued that the West, which opposed the tariff, should support it since urban factory workers would be consumers of western foods.

"The West supports the Albanians and they are fighting against us," she said.

Instead of sanctions, he said, the West should support leaders of the democratic opposition and nurture a free press.

But the West has always embraced and supported undemocratic regimes for the sake of oil.

It now leads the West to support his brothers in tyranny, and call them brother.

They would like to be with the West, but the West does not support them.

Somalia is one of the countries whose virtually non-existent government the West is supporting by all means possible.