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Post by confuzzled dude Mon Mar 09, 2015 2:01 pm

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'd be forgiven for thinking that the Islamic State sprang out of nowhere last year. The extremist group's brutal tactics and surreal rhetoric seemed like a leap beyond most other extremist Islamist groups, if not wholly unprecedented. Yet research has shown time and again that much of the group's rise was slow and gradual, with many important seeds planted years ago, and only becoming apparent more recently.

In a new paper for the Brookings Institution, Cole Bunzel, an expert on the Islamic State at Princeton University, shows how one of the most powerful and evocative concepts for the group – their self-proclaimed, Iraq-centered "caliphate" – stretched back more than a decade and was informed as much by the modern context within which 21st century jihadist groups operate as it was Islamic history.

Crucially, Bunzel finds that three actions of recent United State foreign policy inadvertently helped create the conditions that would allow a self-proclaimed "caliphate" in the Middle East to come into existence. Here's how the Islamic State's caliphate went from a dim idea to a grim reality in a little over a decade.

1. The war in Afghanistan
2. The war in Iraq
3. The death of Osama bin Laden
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/03/09/3-times-u-s-foreign-policy-helped-to-create-the-islamic-state/

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