Shadow wars : the secret struggle for the Middle East /
Describes how the failure of the "Arab Spring" lead to religious politics, sectarian war, bloody counter-revolutions, and brutal Islamic extremism, placing the blame for these modern state-building disasters on Western intervention.
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London :
Oneworld Publications Lt,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Counter-revolution: a pattern emerges
- Cold war, oil war: America takes over
- The road to al-Qaeda: the CIA's baby
- Allied to jihad: useful idiots
- The Arab Spring: a system threatened
- Plan "A": Islamists versus the deep state
- Plan "B": a fake Arab Spring
- Enter the Islamic State: a phantom menace
- The Islamic State: a strategic asset
- The Islamic State: a gift that keeps giving
- Epilogue: Keeping the wheel turning.
