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We westerners have been getting involved in this shit for far too long. It was Churchill that sat down with some mates and arbitrarily drew the lines for what became Iraq in 1920, and then in 1948 Israel was created by the west. More recently the invasions of Iraq and subsequent complete fucking disasters as a result of a change in power structure (Sunnis being unseated by Shias, etc) have been all of our doing.
The ethnic and tribal groups that inhabit the region have been co-existing and warring for literally thousands of years, going back to before the alleged birth of Jesus Christ. Americans hated the British not more than two to three hundred years ago, the Koreans 60 years ago, the Vietnamese 40 years ago, but that's all forgotten and now it's Boko Haram or IS or whoever else is drawing the most media attention. We really have no comprehension of the depth of these tribal/religious relationships, and every time the west gets involved it makes things worse. Through its actions, the US did help create IS, and sadly I think the faction they have created is so dangerous that they need to be wiped out. They're not dangerous to me sitting here in Australia, or you sitting somewhere in the US, but in their region they are brutally murdering/decapitating/executing everyone they come across who they consider an infidel, and the indoctrination of the youth will guarantee decades more of this if it isn't stomped out soon.- You forgot Libya, look at it now, from a clean country hated by the west to a cesspool of islamic fundamentalism, yeeeeeaaaaahGeorgesII