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It's not about some abstract historical notion of right and wrong. The US has created an environment that fosters terrorism. Whether this is wronger or righter than any historical colonialism by other countries is completely irrelevant. We've created "the YC for terrorists" in the countries we have smashed in the Middle East, and now there is a lot of terrorism.

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Ok, so what makes the ME react differently to meddling compared to SE Asia?

My first attempt at an answer would be the breadth and depth of the meddling involved.

That being said, could you provide examples as to how the Middle East has reacted to meddling as opposed to South East Asia?

Look at Thailand, a land with many masters over the millennia, India, china, British, Japan. Yet there is only a certain faction involved in terrorism there, their society at large doesn't feel the need to engage in antiwestern terrorism.

Death cult?

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