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[–] novictim ago 

Typo, ISIS is not the Mujaheddin. Islamists long predate the USA. That the USA was in a cold war and facilitated the Islamists to fight the Soviets does in no way mean that the Wahabbist leaders of the resistance got their ideology from a handful of US weapons merchants.

Ataturk and his Turkish successors had been fighting (with bullets) against similar Islamist forces all through out the post WWI period. Did the USA create that too?

And what about the Islamists in northern Nigeria that eventually became Boko Haram? The roots of this go back to the early 19th century and really all the way back to the 8th century and the very mandates lined out in the Koran. That there are pauses and periods of set backs and internal conflicts does not mean that Islam had stopped in its core demands on the faithful.

It is fashionable in the ME to dwell in conspiracy theories and to blame the West for things that Islam does to itself. If you spend any time with an Iranian or Palestinian or a Syrian you see these yarns being spun endlessly. If is like a cultural past time and it always manages to shift the needed focus on Islam, itself, onto some crack pot theory that the "Zionists did it, the Americans did it, The XYZ did it". Never that Islam has a dogmatic demand for one narrative that cannot ever be agreed to and that constantly leads to Muslims killing Muslims.

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[–] Typo 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I gave an overly simplified answer to a loaded questions. This is essentially the butterfly effect.

The blame doesn't really fall on anyone. Opportunists will take advantage of any situation. USA invasion is one piece that helped it along.

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[–] novictim 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Yes, "butterfly effect" might also be called the law of unintended consequences. People think they see all the moves ahead but inevitable get surprised.