&gt; Well, plenty of people do think that Erdogan is strongly sympathetic to ISIS.<p>I do not believe that he has emotions.  It&#x27;s all money and power, IMO.  And he is as representative of his people as Hitler is of today&#x27;s Germans.  And it&#x27;s not that Europe is enemies with him.<p>&gt; Can blame all you want, but what&#x27;s done is done.<p>Then you should have the same approach to terrorist attacks too.  See, ideas have the bad side effect of applying to a wider spectrum than you intend.<p>&gt; Canada (or rather British territories in North America) was once at war with the Americans. We were at war with the Germans (twice). We got over it.<p>You got over it helping each other.  You didn&#x27;t exterminate Germans for the bad they did.  Revenge will not bring peace.  It&#x27;ll bring more revenge.<p>&gt; Don&#x27;t pretend the Islamic world didn&#x27;t participate in the [empire building games.]<p>I&#x27;m not a muslim, and I do not have any sympathy for any religion or empire.  The world progresses, and what I do not like is the pride that people try to hold on to.  My words should boil down to &quot;we are different faces of the same evil&quot;.  In the end, West has had more chance to mess it up than the muslims, and they&#x27;ve never ceased to do so.  Where are the native americans?<p>&gt; If the West is so vengeful, why IS Istanbul still Istanbul?<p>It is Istanbul now.  Who knows what&#x27;ll happen tomorrow?