The everlasting legacy of George W Bush, John W Howard, and Tony Blair.

They were justified in going after bin Laden and al qaeda in Afghanistan, and probably the Taliban (they couldn't have operated in Afghanistan if they hadn't 'neutralised' the Taliban).

But going into Iraq (as a Crusade as Bush described it) was to the detriment of the operations and in Afghanistan; and it was highly likely that Muslim resentment and backlash was going to feature.

* to the detriment of the operations and *aims* in Afghanistan ...

Wherever the terrorists exist there's likely to be horrific humanitarian problems, with or without Daesh.

It sounds crazy, but think for a moment about the difference there would be in the world if we spent billions, even trillions of dollars on providing housing, jobs, healthcare and education for people around the world instead of bombing innocent civilians into the stone age?

The war on terror has only produced more terror. We need to look at our stated values and what our governments are actually doing and think about how mismatched they are.

How about if the US and its allies stopped funding fundamentalist muslims? There are plenty of sources including Hillary Clinton who have stated the CIA funded Al Qaeda.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqn0bm4E9yw
Seymour Hersh (the journalist who exposed the My Lai massacre) has said the US and Saudis and others have funded ISIS
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line

More war will only help those whose interests are served by war. Corporations are the only winners. They make the money off armament sales, they get first dibs on liberated nations resources (many were previously in state hands)

Libya is a great example - before 2011 it was the richest country in Africa.
Its people had subsidized housing,
free health
free education (they even paid students to go OS to study at the tertiary level)
free electricity
free child care
Women were able to vote, work, study
It was debt free with billions in reserve

After the "liberation" by NATO it is now a failed state - militias are killing civilians - 3/4 or a million Libyans have fled the country. But never fear, the US and EU have taken billions of dollars from Libya to keep it in trust - they will now doubt give it back when things improve.

Yes, the devastating legacy of the coalition of the killing.
Meanwhile the situation in the Middle East, especially in regards to Israel and Palestine is far more complex than the usual zionist propaganda hacks and the powerful Jewish lobby would have us believe.
The new essay by Robert Parry via his Consortium News website provides an interesting perspective re the behinds the scenes villainy of two of the key players in the psychotic drama(s) being dramatized in that part of the world. It is titled Did Money Seal the Israeli Saudi Alliance.

"Growing support for - and pledges of allegiance to - Islamic State by diverse Islamic terrorist groups world-wide are now creating horrific humanitarian problems for Christian communities in many countries"

How about Growing support for - and pledges of allegiance to - Israel by diverse complicit Countries world-wide, particularly the U.S., UK, Australia, Saudi Arabia et al are now creating horrific humanitarian problems for Palestinians in their own traditional homelands.

You are such a hypocrite.

The entire ME disaster is a result of the Zionist designed and orchestrated plan being carried out by the foolhardy Americans and their lapdog allies.

Fortunately non-Zionists and normal people can see right through the lies and propaganda being espoused to justify genocide in the ME and spreading to other countries like Ukraine.