Those prepared to carry out the terrorist outrages and the attacks have been around since 1970. They have flocked to any location where they think they can get away with their brand of murder and mayhem under the all encompassing banner of Jihad.

Their fight has got absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with "Palestine" or with Israel, nothing whatsoever to do with "liberal intervention", the "Arab Spring" had no external influences in Tunisia, just as it the "revolutions" in Egypt, Libya and Syria had no external influences. None had anything to do with Al-Qaeda, Afghanistan or with Iraq.

In Egypt there was the only ever the semblance of an "Arab Spring" type revolution, the Army always was in control just as they have always been in control since Nasser seized power.

The people of Libya watching events in Tunisia to the west and Egypt to the east saw their chance to press for greater freedom, the people of Syria saw the same news broadcasts and sought the same. Alas in their country's their rulers had different ideas, and we all know the results. The UN did empower action in Libya where Russia had no stake, but in Syria, Russia had it's only naval base in the Mediterranean to protect so the Russia veto was threatened against any UN Security Council Resolution affecting Assad and Syria.

IS presence in Iraq was down to the incompetent, corrupt and divisive rule of Nouri al-Malaki that was the only way IS could have swept back into the Sunni areas and provinces of Iraq, nothing to do with "liberal interventionism". In Syria they are merely taking advantage of the situation in a country that has become a failed state.

IS, it's presence and its ambitions are NOT our fault - Not by a long shot.