3.6.15: The Guardian: How the US fuelled the rise of ISIS (+1800 comments)

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30Zero Ikke angivet,

16/11/2015

(03.06.2015) NOW THE TRUTH EMERGES:


How the US fuelled the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq

| Seumas Milne | Comment is free | The Guardian

War and destruction have destabilized the whole middle east, and it seems to be spreading. A genuine, non-hypocritical commitment to nobler principles -- to moral values rather than political expediency, to society rather than the powerful -- would be a good start.

However difficult and expensive, and fraught with danger and fragile these suggestions sound a never-ending war and derivative promulgation of violence will be just as hard and expensive and dangerous and fragile.

Western countries have the economic and, one would hope, cultural ability to make a real difference in the world. Why don't we?