SPQR how dare you infiltrate the thread with truth.
A thousand years ago!
Ah Crusaders started it did they.
Fact is today is both Prayer day therefore death day, in some parts of the middle east.
Not that Pakistan and Afghanistan are death free.

Yes, Belly...it's all very complicated.

I might point out that you fellas arc up when things like "colonialism" are mentioned - because that's supposedly too far back to matter.

Yet, SPQR is quite happy to mention that infighting has been going on for over 1,000 years.

You can't have it both ways - do we go back a way or not?

In any case, he's correct - and Bushie and Co should have known what would happen.

It was obvious to me.

Poirot,

Islamic infighting --> on-going

Colonialism --> finished (unless you subscribe Poirot view of history!)

<<You can't have it both ways - do we go back a way or not?>>

Why not you do --equal opportunity

SPQR,

Colonialism by any other name is imperialism - aka - superpower stomping into Iraq to gain influence over resources - and to deliver "freedom" by way of misery.

SPQR,

Re: <<Colonialism (is made of snips and snails and puppy dogs & is never ending)>>

Self1: I TOLD YOU she would say that!
Self2: But I thought she might have improved, learned something.
Self1: Stuuupid man, she's too deeply brainwashed to change.

What was that about the first sign of madness?

(This post is directed at both of you - that is Self 1 "and" Self 2)

Which reminds me of that joke told by Bill Murray in "What About Bob"

.........

Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

I'm a schizophrenic,

And so am I.