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Originally Posted by blankall
The initial conflicts could have been dealt with via cooperation. Much of the sectarian violence is also the result of surrounding and Western countries pushing their own agendas.
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Originally Posted by peter12
Absolutely. The interventions in Iraq, Egypt, and Syria destabilized the fragile status quo in the Middle East. This is the fall-out. We should never have gotten involved.
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Sunnis and #####es have been at each other's throats for centuries. They don't need any prompting from the West to kill each other.
I'm not excusing the West, or denying the intractable political problems the West has fostered in the Middle East. However, to me the real root of the issue is Islam's crisis coping with modernity. You don't need foreign intervention for deeply conservative and fundamentalist cultures to violently react against liberal values that threaten those conservative norms. You only have to look to fly-over country in the U.S. to see something similar.