13-06-2015, 02:11 PM
I would argue that for the last 35-40 years, certain elements in the US and Israel have been deliberately targeting secular regimes that were not friendly to the West and encouraging the growth of Islamic radicalism. The Israelis in particular have adopted this divide-and-conquer idea. They covertly supported Hamas to weaken the secular PLO.
Instead of having modernizing governments in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Libya (and Palestine), countries that would become powerful and represent a military/economic threat to Israel and American interests, it's better to have weak, divided states where the people are busy killing each other. The US also uses it as a good excuse to "intervene to restore order."
What Afghanistan and Iraqi universities were like in the 1970s:
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Instead of having modernizing governments in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Libya (and Palestine), countries that would become powerful and represent a military/economic threat to Israel and American interests, it's better to have weak, divided states where the people are busy killing each other. The US also uses it as a good excuse to "intervene to restore order."
What Afghanistan and Iraqi universities were like in the 1970s:
