How Islamist fanaticism comes in handy to foreign powers

[Toramana]

"However, there is a whole slice of modern history available where the West on the one hand used the forces of radical Islam for geopolitical purposes (for example, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria) while these very same forces at other times provided an alibi for Western military invasions (Afghanistan again). "

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