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Old 07-15-2016, 07:24 PM   #242
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This portion was enabled yes, but a "home base" still has to be a home base for something. If you consider ISIS as the be all end all and the problem, then your outlook on Western impact is going to be different than mine. I don't consider them that, they're just the current flavour.
Agreed... which is why i tend to reject reductivist arguments...

its extremely complex situation, based on a thousand years of history...

one can look to the rise of the madrassas in Saudi Arabia as one of the catalysts for this...or the rise of the Ayllotahs in Iran...but ultimately, the conflict involves a lot of complexities that most in the west have a very limited understanding of...
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