Badassbab on 15 January 2012
I think you'll find the US is a significant part of the problem, not the solution. The terrorism in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan has increased greatly since the so called war on terror and the number of lives lost has been in the hundreds of thousands not to mention the trillion dollar plus in financial cost. But to really understand the issues you need to be going back decades and even back to WWI if you want to involve French, British and the Ottoman Empire (all of whom used to dominates parts of that region during the 20th century before the US became the dominate force there post WWII).
