The West has learned nothing from its mistakes. During the Cold War, the United States and its NATO allies supported Islamist militias in Afghanistan to weaken the Soviet Union – unwittingly laying the foundation for al-Qaeda. Today, this pattern is repeating itself in Syria, only with new faces and old reflexes.While secular Kurds in northern Syria bore the brunt of the ground offensive against the so-called Islamic State, the West is once again courting Islamist forces. This time, it's being

Tag-uri: Islam