Colonizing Without Colonies
Al Qaida didn't create their doctrine. The Taliban didn't invent their radicalism. Daish didn't emerge from nothing. They were built from something that was already there. That something was the Wahabi movement. The West handed them a country to run it from. The Middle East is broken for exactly one reason: a century of Western interference — fear first, then guilt, then greed. Starting in 1916, it became an exercise in colonizing without colonists. The Ottoman Empire was carved up and distributed like slabs of beef, handed to whatever aligned interests the Western powers could identify, regardless of how extreme, how dangerous, how disconnected from the populations they were given authority over. Families loyal to American and Western interests received sultanates, royalties, crowns. The House of Saud was handed the Arabian Peninsula — and guardianship over Mecca — and with it, the Wahabi doctrine they would export through every institution they ever touched. Osam...
