The idea that the ideology of “Islamic extremism” is what drives Daesh and others is not supported by evidence from the front line. Lydia Wilson of the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict at Oxford University reports the experience of interviewing Daesh prisoners in Iraq.
She quotes one who put his reasons for fighting as follows: “The Americans came,” he said. “They took away Saddam, but they also took away our security. I didn’t like Saddam, we were starving then, but at least we didn’t have war. When you came here, the civil war started.”
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Gee, it looks like Dr. Ron Paul was right after all - this whole damn war is blowback from idiotic things done by stupid Americans.
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