wtf? No, you already referenced it. It would require you supporting the hateful crap you spew, and you won't do that. I don't know if you're too stupid, or too evil. Maybe both.
I referenced it in response to another person's quote and don't want to derail this topic further. If you want to discuss the origins of the conflicts in the ME today - start a topic and I'll join in. Much of it started with WW1 and the carving up of the Ottoman Empire into states that would not have naturally existed forcing different people's together who historically did not get along, and creating a situation where only strongman dictators could hold those states together. Following the European system of "divide and conquor" they invested minorities with power because they knew the minorities would have to remain loyal to them or their existence would be threatened. Why are the Christians in Syria in so much trouble? They were closely linked to the ruling Syrian group, also a minority, and now the civil war has given power, and vengeance, to the oppressed majorities. That's NOT a defense of anything - just a very simplistic explanation of the history behind it. It's fascinating and dreadful, and similar played out in Africa.
States don't "naturally exist"
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Lots of "states" in the Mid east -----EXISTED as----PLACES
sorta called LANDS----long before the Ottoman empire existed and they exist still. Iraq is the BABYLON of old----
Syria is approximately ASSYRIA. Lebanon is still Lebanon
after more then 3000 years. Egypt is still Egypt. Sudan
was Sudan thousands of Years ago-----well Morocco was
Morocco for at least 1000 years maybe a lot more I really do not see where "THE EVIL WEST" created anything
new from anything other than JORDAN---from
the area that used to be called "Transjordan---
Ie the land to the east of the Jordan River. Europe got
more CHOPPED up in the last 500 years than did the
Middle east. My ancestors hailed from the AUSTRIAN-
HAPSBURG EMPIRE_----anyone know what happened
to that place? Its loss has not discombobulated me