I wonder if Perkins Coie is representing any of these terrorists.
They lost me when they conflated the Royal Air Force with the Red Army Faction.
I’ll leave my tinfoil hat off today.
Some people don’t understand the difference between intentions and consequences, often blaming & assuming all consequences were intended.
The greatest game across the Middle East has been joint activities that had both western and Middle East sponsors, and where the Middle East partners hide their true self-interests from their stupid heads-in-the-sand western partners.
As a prime example is Afghanistan. The U.S. had an interest (those in charge were led to believe) in helping to remove the Soviets and the government they created in Afghanistan. The U.S. had no interest in (a) helping to power Islamic radicals like Al Queda, or (b) similarly helping Pakistani intelligence foster their own radical Islamic fundamentalist army in Afghanistan (the Taliban), yet those were among the consequences and the Saudis and Pakistan knew all along what they were working on, what their true objectives were. Syria was a nearly duplicate case as Afghanistan, in terms of western intentions and the intentions of their Middle East allies - all of which had Islamic fundamentalist Sunni dominant intentions.
The greatest error of the west in the Middle East is in getting involved, as most of the local interests, with Israel the exception, are never really aligned with the west’s long term interests much less it’s values.
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