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The middle east has been used as a tug of war chewtoy by the US and Russia for half a century or more, is the simple fact. All of this is just confirmation that the existence of ISIS has taught them nothing.

People blame Islam or say that the people involved in terrorist attacks are simply monsters but step back for a second. We see these videos every day at the moment, of families and children who are not "other", they look like they could be your next door neighbour, and they're lying there killed by gas or bombs, parents wailing over them... I find myself having to be brutally honest and say... If that was my children lying dead on the ground, I am as certain as I can be that I would become a "monster" too. Does that make me a "sympathiser"? I don't know. I do know that if I wasn't dead too, I wouldn't be human any more.