http://www.alternet.org/books/chomsky-us-spawned-fundamentalist-frankenstein-mideast?akid=12333.294211.cBwNTR&rd=1&src=newsletter1022149&t=13
One of the most respected mainstream US Middle East analysts, former
CIA operative Graham Fuller, recently wrote that "I think the United
States is one of the key creators of [ISIS]. The United States did not
plan the formation of ISIS, but its destructive interventions in the
Middle East and the war in Iraq were the basic causes of the birth of
ISIS."
He is correct, I think. The situation is a disaster for the US, but
is a natural result of its invasion. One of the grim consequences of
US-UK aggression was to inflame sectarian conflicts that are now tearing
Iraq to shreds, and have spread over the whole region, with awful
consequences.
ISIS seems to represent a new jihadist movement, with greater
inherent tendencies toward barbarity in the pursuit of its mission to
re-establish an Islamic caliphate, yet apparently more able to recruit
young radical Muslims from the heart of Europe, and even as far as
Australia, than al-Qaeda itself. In your view, why has religious
fanaticism become the driving force behind so many Muslim movements
around the world?
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