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religious fundamentalism is not new to the region.
neither is US intervention and manipulation.
YES, we are targeted because of our presence in these areas from a militaristic standpoint. However the reason why other places are targeted is because of failed occupations/interventions/manipulations in trying to arm people and have them turn on other nations on our behalf. Sometimes it works, except now the insurgency you armed takes it too far, or turns on you and you end up with the extremist factions. ISIS was not solely created by drone strikes, I don't want to imply that. However, I do want to re-contextualize the original assertion in this post, which was living in fear of ISIS.
In many ways people on the other side of the conversation have the same sentiment about our presence, and that only feeds into the radicalism. If we were to change our foreign policy agenda I believe it would help in subduing some of the radicalism. You will never wipe out an ideology, but it won't seem as attractive if we don't fuel them with obscenities on our behalf to recruit around. Other Muslims and areas are targeted as well, with no drone strikes, because it is based in their fundamentalist estimation of what a true "Muslim" is. So no, we are not the sole victims of ISIS, but I find the Muslims in nearby areas to ISIS to have the DOUBLE fear of ISIS and US, where they daily fight on this life or death matter. Americans for the most part are either oblivious or apathetic, until of course matters his close to "home". ________________________________________________ R.I.P. Soulgyal <3 SUPA NERD LLC. Knowledge Meets Nature Musica Negra #13irteen
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