In his 2002 book "A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order", historian William Engdahl noted in regard to the US decision to overthrow the late Shah of Iran: In other words, the US regime change strategy in the middle east that has been so bloody destructive, was birthed by a British academic with an MI6 background and taken up by the US and the UK. While I don't agree with everything stated, you can more in-depth on this subject HERE on The Bernard Lewis Project.
Indeed and the Iraq war according to Michael Hirsh was indeed a war on Muslims Bernard Lewis Revisited You may though find this also interesting. I think within it they talk about the deliberate creation of xenophobia towards Muslims in the US and talking about Muslim extremists before they even existed. Israeli-Palestine Peace - what's Iraq got to do with it?
Thanks for the links, I'll read them both. Deliberate xenophobia is as old as the hills, and used for all sorts of vile power grabs throughout history (Hitler and the Jews for example). It's so nice to see that we in the west have stooped down to those cesspit levels, just to prolong an 'effing awful political system that is rotten to the core which benefits the 1% at the expense of the 99%. It's past time for a change I reckon.
