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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens
No, there we disagree. There were plenty of bombings and suicide attacks in the ME before and after 9/11. You want to pinpoint a time for blame, how about 1948?
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Actually, if you really want to find the seeds of this modern mess, you can go back to the time of T.E. Lawrence and the Arab Uprising in WWI. Much like the situation with Native-Americans in the US, Britain made a lot of promises to the Arab tribes and leaders, virtually all of which were summarily broken; and, in a foreshadowing of the US training the the Taliban to fight the USSR only to have them turn around and use the training against the US, the British gave the then Arab tribes the means to further down the line use their training against the West. Politically, the wheeling and dealing behind the scenes by the UK and France, primarily, set up the bitter tribal, geographical, and sectarian religious conflicts in the ME plaguing the world today. The roots are very old and very bitter...
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