there are many minorities being wiped out in Iraq and on the levant by militant islam. it's genocide.   however it doesn't excuse the western interference in the region--mainly American,which has always resulted in violent and unintended consequences, because those formulating policies are about as ignorant as keith or terribus on this list.

destabalizing Iraq, at tremendous cost, was evil and foolish and now the chickens are coming home to roost. saddam was bad, but if we have no way of crating anything but chaos we in the west should stay out.

destabalizing iran with the mozedheg coup was equally evil and foolish and made irian an enemy. they never learn.

and Israeli has commited major war crimes. no recognized world class ngo has supported the Israeli claim that hamas uses human shields. that's propaganda. hamas is evil but that's what you get when you take all the land and water. if Israeli had stopped it's settlements after oslo(almost 25 years ago) then they would have a chance at peace now. they have continued to steal land and water and now neither gaza nor the west bank are sustainable states. they depend on united nations handouts and money in aid. Israel created this situation and a few rockets are the least they should expect. they killed hundreds of civilians. gaza is a genocide in progress.