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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Blame the West’s interventions for today’s terrorism


Blame the West’s interventions for today’s terrorism

By Stephen Kinzer – Boston Globe    NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Outside powers have been crashing into the Middle East for more than a century. At first we presumed that people there would not mind, or even that they would welcome us. Ultimately we realized that our interventions were provoking hatred and violent turmoil. We took refuge in another comforting illusion: That no matter how awful the reaction was, it would be confined to the Middle East.https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/11/24/blame-west-interventions-for-today-terrorism/8H8ft7lLVuIUxXjy8IHugM/story.html

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