revenge and collective punishment has arrived in London. And it has its own rationality. Don’t give me the nonsense about why do they hate us. They don’t.
The response to the neo-colonial adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq should surprise no one. Islamist extremism and terrorism, unknown in Iraq before occupation, now fights side by side with the more measured Iraqi resistance.
He’s right of course: Islamist terrorism was pretty much unknown in Saddam’s Iraq (though terror, on the other hand, was its defining feature). Same for Afghanistan under the Taliban: absolutely zero Islamic terrorism. There’s clearly a moral there for us all, and it’s one the Guardian and the Islamists can happily agree on.
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