do I need to spell it out then? The deflection from western apologists is we ( west) somehow were not in the ME -we would not be targeted.
But it's never spelled out just exactly what "in" the ME is. a naval presence? air bases in SA that bin Laden objected to?
the US west/ is not at war there except Syria now.Do you think all this is blowback from war..no.
it comes from Islamic jihad. almost all of it from Sunni's expressed as AQ or IS. Those groups have
have radicalized from the days of the mujahideen in Afghanistan against the Russians,and I suppose before it with the Israelis and the Palestinians.
ISIS is more directly from AQI - but it's just as fierce against fellow Muslims as against western. It's much more then some nationalist movement
It's a pan Islamic movement, but not an inclusive one, it practices internecine killing