The reason to point out these actions is to make clear what Islamist terrorism in the West represents to the terrorists: Middle East violence on an expanded front. The West has done much to create that front, arming favored actors, launching proxy wars, and taking the lives of civilians in unconscionable numbers.
坦白说，西方的行动不能给伊斯兰恐怖主义带来丝毫合理成分。指出这些行动是为了澄清西方的伊斯兰恐怖主义对恐怖分子意味着什么：前沿扩大了的中东暴力。西方要为暴力前沿的出现负很大责任。西方武装它们所喜欢的行动方，发动代理战争，夺走无数平民的生命。