Thanks for a measured and informative response. I could add to your list reams of links of where &#x27;we&#x27; have behaved badly.<p>I suspect you too have a bulging bookmark folder like I do of hypocritical western behaviour.<p>However the battle against militant jihadi extremists is one issue where &#x27;we&#x27; are completely in the right. Completely.<p>No need to apologise for past wrongs. If we have regarded life as too cheap in the past, that is irrelevant to ensuring your own family cannot be killed.<p>Now prior actions of our own may have exacerbated, strengthened and accelerated the militant jihadis ( Iraq, Afghanistan ). But even without our own errors and crimes militant jihadis would have arisen eventually.<p>The jihadis have so many &#x27;reasons&#x27; to kill us. If some &#x27;reasons&#x27; did not exist because we didn&#x27;t invade Iraq say, or we addressed other &#x27;reasons&#x27; ( say for example we disbanded Israel ) there are just so many more &#x27;reasons&#x27; left for the jihadis that single us out for killing.<p>Lets say Iraq was still under Saddam and Syria under Assad. No ISIS perhaps. What then about al Qaeda, the Taliban, al Qaeda in the Yemen, Boko Haram, Jemaah Islamiyah.<p>And the militant jihadis have found a brainwashing method that repeatably draws from a small but replenishing minority of evil, vain and stupid young people.