A 'Life' Question from England..

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Oct 11th 2014, 6:14 am

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Re: A 'Life' Question from England..

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Yes, I like Bill too, but he might be getting a bit too caught up in the argument. It's the first thing of Fareed's I've read, I found him a bit lightweight when I have seen him on CNN, but I will pay a bit more attention.

I used to find 'Global Public Square' to be very informative - maybe partly because such programmes are rare in the US.

Oct 11th 2014, 6:17 am

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Re: A 'Life' Question from England..

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I agree. I read an article/interview recently which compared the extremism we are seeing in the Middle East, with the gang problem and riots we are seeing in the West. It's almost always disaffected youth, who are mostly poor and comparatively uneducated. It was an interesting comparison...

Hard to say. The Sunni-Shia divide seems to fuel much of it in Iraq/Syria and simply the venom of the radicals. Certainly some of the Westerners that have gone to join ISIS are not poor or uneducated.

Oct 11th 2014, 6:23 am

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Re: A 'Life' Question from England..

This kind of devastation, in direct violence and infrastructure collapse, will fuel extremism.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24547256

Oct 11th 2014, 6:28 am

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Re: A 'Life' Question from England..

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This kind of devastation, in direct violence and infrastructure collapse, will fuel extremism.

Iraq study estimates war-related deaths at 461,000 - BBC News

Yes. It was a shameful war. I don't understand how its not possible to hold Bush/Blair to account, they obviously personally over-rode so many checks and balances, especially Blair.

Oct 11th 2014, 6:32 am

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Yes. It was a shameful war. I don't understand how its not possible to hold Bush/Blair to account, they obviously personally over-rode so many checks and balances, especially Blair.

I don't know what goes through their heads. An element of religious righteousness was involved on their side too.