[Salon] The US was warned that arming Islamist extremists would end in disaster. They did it anyway

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The US was warned that arming Islamist extremists would end in disaster.

They did it anyway.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/468587/the-fall-of-the-west-by-jones-owen/9780241740644
The Fall of the West
by
Owen Jones

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