'We owe them a home, because we took theirs away.' The last chapter of the book has at a story in which US Army Iraq war veteran decided to adopt an Iraqi family as his own. The rest of the book makes pretty worrying reading when you consider all the coerced and forced deportations of Christians and Sunnis Muslims from Iraq and the resulting chaos created in neighbouring countless like Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. The most interesting revelation for me is the power struggle between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran using proxy armies. As a Pakistani I have been witness to this proxy warfare in Afghanistan and Pakistan these past 20 years or so. SA will continue to export their radical ideology and personal to other playing fields otherwise this ideology will burn itself. I suspect it will come to hound it one day but unfortunately for the moment millions of innocent will have to pay a hefty price. The book is a great read for anyone interested in understanding the current state of Middle East.
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