Tim Streater posted
It's clear that Islamism was attacking people before the Iraq war, and
that these groups or their predecessors existed at least a decade
before 9/11. It's also clear that many of the countries they are
attacking had no links with the Iraq war.

It's even clearer that the 2003 Iraq war is, by a very long way, not the
only example of Western interference in the Middle East. It's merely the
most egregious.

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Jack