re: #334 wrenchwench

And are you saying, in your previous comments, that these constitute ‘the Muslim world’?

I think those are the Muslim, but non-Middle East, spots that we have been militarily involved with in the near past. Made in answer to Comment #311.

And both places are more complex than religious issues. Especially since both areas essentially include what are in essence failed nation-states in addition to colonial and environmental issues that make their nationalist issues even more complex.

A secondary consideration in these discussions is also whether the religious claims are actually primary, or just happen to be congruent with underlying political or economic power issues and thus help make a convenient excuse.