Yes, I'm sure the collapse of the state was quite terrible. Nobody is trying to diminish the horror of that experience. The point is that "westerners," even HN

Yes, I'm sure the collapse of the state was quite terrible. Nobody is trying to diminish the horror of that experience. The point is that "westerners," even HN readers, are not all a bunch of naive rich people who have never experienced and cannot understand large scale social change.