I really haven't seen that to be the case. What I have seen is SJWs shaming people for not caring about, say, ISIS attacks in Beirut, or pointing out that Western countries rain unmitigated death on Middle Eastern countries all the time. One can argue about whether or not this is productive (personally, I think it is, though not nearly as productive as it could be), but I wouldn't say it's downplaying anything, merely elevating stories that are not told as much to the level of stories that are told a lot.
Back in the 2000s, you had Bush Did 9/11, which was far more stupid than that and counterproductive to everyone. But that fortunately died the death it deserved.
If you read about ISIS recruits, excluding those from Western countries, they are mainly the generation that grew up in a region destabilized by Western aggression. They're in it for the money and lack of other institutional options. The consequences of removing stable dictators and installing weak puppet governments were hardly predictable or unknown. They'd never have gotten the foothold they did without the foolish wars that the West blundered into.
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Date: 2016-01-24 04:50 pm (UTC)Back in the 2000s, you had Bush Did 9/11, which was far more stupid than that and counterproductive to everyone. But that fortunately died the death it deserved.
If you read about ISIS recruits, excluding those from Western countries, they are mainly the generation that grew up in a region destabilized by Western aggression. They're in it for the money and lack of other institutional options. The consequences of removing stable dictators and installing weak puppet governments were hardly predictable or unknown. They'd never have gotten the foothold they did without the foolish wars that the West blundered into.