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This is what we always forget when we discuss Israel–how would we respond?

Perhaps colonialism left the region vulnerable for what is happening today. Perhaps globalism has followed too close on the heels of its predecessor, and now it is too simple to equate the two, and spread an anti-Western ideology that festers into hate and extremism. Then, too, there is a yearning for days gone by–for a mythical Islamic State that once existed in the form of the Caliphates of old....

This is the first of about a thousand pictures my brother sent me from his two tours in Iraq.