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Typical. Blame it all on the USA and "colonial powers".

Typical, failure to understand the point and then act as if colonial powers
never did one wrong thing.

Like those
ethnic tensions have not been there for hundreds or thousands of
years, long before the USA ever got involved.

Of course they've been there for hundreds of years, which is why it was such
a stupid idea for nations like France and Britain to draw a line on a map
and announce that two (or three or four) ethnic groups that hate each other
are all now citizens of one new nation. Because that's exactly what
happened in places like Iraq, the Brits and the French literally traded
chunks of territory to assemble a nation that from a cultural viewpoint
didn't really exist. Does that seem like it was a good idea in your
opinion?

In fact, it seems countries with ethnic tensions do best when they have
a dictator running the
place, something many of those places seem to prefer. Take the dictator
out and then they run amuck ala Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan....who's next?
Libya?

"Do best" translating to cooperating with the interests of America and other
major western powers. So long as they keep the oil pumping, who cares about
the secret police and no free elections and a controlled press and so on.
So America has a list of things America supposedly stands for--freedom being
at the top--and then America supports brutal dictators in places like
Nicaragua and the Philippines and Egypt and Iran and Chile and so on and so
forth, and then America wonders why the people in those nations harbor hard
feeling towards the good old US of A. Yeah, that's a real puzzler, isn't
it.

or because the west supported
oppressive regimes which made themselves useful.

Implying that it would have been better if it were an oppressive
regime not supported by the USA. Like perhaps North Korea?
Uganda under Idi Amin?

Implying no such thing. Feel free to disagree with what I post, but don't
make up **** I didn't write and respond to that instead, okay?

Islamophobia is a
cop-out, and people who use it are usually pig-ignorant of the facts.

The fact is that the world today has a major problem with terrorists
driven by extremist interpreation of one religion: Muslim

The name of the religion is Islam, not Muslim. A Muslim is an adherent of
Islam.

But at least you agree that it is Muslim *extremists* who are the problem,
not the hundreds of millions of Muslims who have no interest in strapping on
a suicide vest. There have been similar problems with American terrorists
like Tim McVeigh, and the Aryan Nations, the Jewish Defense League, and
abortion clinic bombers, and the Earth Liberation Front and so on--all
true-blue Americans, and all terrorists according to the FBI. Imagine that,
extremists come in all flavors, who knew?