Billionaire investor George Soros has urged Western nations to support revolutions in the Middle East to gain allegiance with new-found democracies.
The founder of the Quantum hedge fund likens the unrest in Libya and other parts of the Middle East to the former Soviet Union between 1989 and 1991, but adds in this case countries such as the US and UK need to stand by the revolutions to ensure new regimes co-operate with the West. Soros says: "What is happening today in the Middle East is very similar to what happened in the former Soviet Union in 1989-91. But then it was a regime hostile to the West that was destroyed by the revolution. "Now it is regimes supported by the West, so the West has to regain the allegiance of the peopl...
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