They were in Istanbul celebrating the mother's new degree in history from a university in Mecca. Typical ISIS victim: a family.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Peter Maass
Region long wrecked by violence. We already forgot the Iraq war(s). Yemen war forgotten without ever being noticed.https://twitter.com/maassp/status/749230435088142336 …
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ISIS is horrible and vicious. Any discussion of how they came to be that's not rooted in events in MENA in past 50 years is.. defective.
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You can't discuss pre-2001 Taliban without understanding the Soviet war, occupation, US-Saudi counter jihad & the refugee camps in Pakistan.
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ISIS is also not outside of history. Decades of war, brutal regimes, occupations, mass displacement produce.. horror. Khmer Rouge. DRC, etc.
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But remember. Horrors end. Peace comes. Even quickly. It's only the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Somme, an insanity of mass violence.
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Having lived in a European city whose people were TWICE massacred by Germans in living memory, I'm not buying immutable, eternal conflicts.
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Obviously events from long ago can cast long shadows. But myths of "eternal" conflict generally means someone's peddling BS.
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Yep. Many momentous, relevant & powerful processes in the last generation or two, but many want to only discuss stuff 1000 years old.
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Totally missing the very modern nature of this horrible situation, and sidestepping a realistic discussion of a sane path forward.
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