or control or dominate these geo-strategically important regions. But ultimately, it's the people in the street who suffer and pay the price. Ultimately, the people become actors in the historical process and they do it by going into the streets. That's what happens. RT: A French magazine is adding insult to injury by publishing drawings of the Prophet Muhammad, which is further enraging Muslims. Who would want to escalate the unrest, and why? BB: There's two groupings in the west. There's the ultra-rightist, nationalist anti-Islamic bigots and also commercial interests, who know that by issuing provocative movies or cartoons depicting Muhammad in a despicable way, that they'll sell magazines. So we have this kind of ugly confluence of right wing bigotry and commercial profit making at the expense of peace. At the expense of people in the region who already feel targeted and now additionally humiliated and insulted. That's a terrible thing and you see very little being done by western governments. They don't necessarily have to suppress these magazines or movies, but they can organize and mobilize and educate the population against them, but they do very little. RT: Even after Washington's efforts to support Arab revolutions last year -- some of those revolutionaries are now railing against America -- why didn't Washington see this coming I wonder? BB: That's the other element. You see that the US makes alliances with any force that has agreed to take up arms against that entity which has been targeted by US