Once the suppressive force of a regime is removed, countries like Egypt, Iraq and Afghanistan have no mechanisms to stop extremists filling the vacuum. There are worse things than dictators. The CIA’s funding of ISIS as the ‘official” opposition to the Syrian regime has created one such monster. The principle of “my enemy’s enemy is […]
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TIME and other US news outlets are trying to present Russian people as believing all the various internet nonsense stories that incidents like the Malaysian Airlines tragedy invariably create. That MH17 was loaded with dead bodies in Amsterdam and the pilots parachuted out; that Putin was flying over the same area in his private plane (and
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The big danger with ISIS is if ordinary people take them seriously. It’s clear that the radicalisation of their followers is crude and extreme; even Osama Bin Laden urged them to temper their ruthlessness. Rightly he said this would turn the tide of ground-level Suuni support against them. The much-touted Islamist threat to Western democracies depends
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