But in today's bomb news, most of the places have had civil wars or "insurgents" that long predate Bush or have little or nothing to do with Bush
Northern Ireland....started by King Willie 350 years ago.
Algeria....
civil war goes back to the 1950's and Islamic terror campaign in the 1990's killed 100thousand people.
Harare is the government's way to justify jailing the opposition.
Morocco can be traced to the annexation of Spanich Morocco in 1975 and the Algerian Islamicist support for that area's independence movement.
Thailand? Yup Islamicists going after Buddhists, but no one is sure why.
SriLanka? Local independence movement. Hindu versus Buddhists.
And I haven't even included India, and the Philippines, both of which have terror movements dating back to the time of their independence.
Even THIS WSJ article points out that a lot of the Iraq violence is not due to Bush or the "war on terror" but is a very nasty payback that would probably have been worse if the US hadn't stepped in, since the US troops are the buffer preventing a complete explosion.
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