Quote:The fact that no one has openly called Israel for what they are--terrorist thugs--sometimes astonishes me. I know it's not PC to say, but Israel's strong-arm and often violent tactics against Palestine (among other Arab nations in the region) and ongoing, though finally tapering, western support for that nation are one of the greatest contributors to the problems we continue to face with the Arab world. Well, that and this...

 

The US created Al Qaeda when it abandoned the Mujahideen after giving them loads of state-of-the-art weaponry. It largely created ISIS when it "liberated" Iraq, leaving behind, again, lots of weapons for the new radicals to find. We're like some kind of failed Batman. We keep creating our own villains, we just don't know how to stop the Joker from gassing Gotham.