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Originally Posted by James

There's probably better words I could have used than 'blaming ourselves' but I can't think of them. It's a certain type of politics that gets held responsible here. Again it is all about our own politics, and the Middle East only usually gets reported if there is a Western angle to the story, so it can be easy to ignore in a kind of "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil."

One aspect of the Middle East that hasn't been mentioned in the cycle of destabalisation is the number of dictatorships that rule these countries, and the often-eventual internal reaction.

Many of us in the west live in countries which couldn't wait to meddle in the middle east, the English for instance have been meddling in Iraq since before WWI. We remove tyrannical dictators and then celebrate, as if what, as if the country will now move to democratic elections and have Tory and Labour PM's to vote for!. Tyrannical leaders they may have been, but they kept stability in the middle east. Why is tyrannical rule in Saudi ok?

We have now peddled around removing them and leaving power vacuums everywhere into which ISIS and various terrorist groups have dived and now they are spreading westwards. Mostly uneducated, mostly mentally ill or unstable but they are still here, fighting what they believe to be a revolution against the enemy.

And the frightening thing is, we can't stop them. We can fill our streets with troops but we won't stop them. We can give more privacy away but we can't find them. Even if we give up everything in our paranoia, we can't stop this.