HERE we have an amazing situation where the West once more wants to intervene in the Middle East.
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You would think they would have learnt by now.
So many wars and not much fruition.
The Middle Eastern conflict has been going for thousands of years, the religious and passionate complexity of which most scholars in our part of the world still strain to understand.
The only reason that I can see at the moment for Western alliances to be involved is that they are “worried” that Islamic State will continue their murderous path to Kuwait-Gulf war all over again.
The jihadists have no chance of winning such a conflict so why they are pursuing it is beyond me.
So much for religion, and thank you King Richard for starting this unholy mess.
About time we started thinking laterally before it evolves into World War III, which is precisely what the fanatics want.
— DEREK ROBINSON,
Wodonga