The Mideast has long been a target for Western manipulations, since the days of the British Empire. With Gandhi, the Brits went to more covert methods than outright colonization.
Our Military Industrial interests live off wars. They don't need to be "World Wars" just continual wars.
I think it is pretty clear our "intelligence" agencies are riddled with little cells of agitators whose job it is to keep supplying these continual wars. Now we have a President who overtly is pro-terrorist. His brother is coming to the White House quite often. His brother is involved in a number of extremist Islamic terrorist groups.
Obama is deliberately setting us up for internal terrorism attacks and intends to extend police-state governmental powers when the next wave of terrorism hits.
Yes, the ISIS militants talk about coming to America and the white house and beheading Obama. . . . that's just how crazy they are. All these extremists are misinformed puppets of US/western operatives, fed one mouthful of ideas. . . . while other groups are fed other ideas. This is the principle outlined by Machiavelli for a method of asserting power by creating sharply divided political conditions in the target area, and offering to come in with soldiers/cops to "restore order".
What we call Islamic "extremists" are hardly real believers in Allah, although historically there have been some who did. Today they are phonies who really believe in Western ideological concepts like fascism, statism, communism, and such. But no totalitarian really cares about ideology, just the power.
As long as this is the road to power, power-hungry folks will flock in to build it up.
However, it is equally true that we have determined warhawks who want to push it to the World War level.
