War comes to the heart of Europe by Pepe Escobar

This new generation of Euro-jihadis is now turning it all upside down, profiting from widespread revulsion against the Anglo-Americans takeover of Iraq to retaliate as well as advance a Salafi worldview. This could all have been prevented by a very simple move: a real democratic project for the Middle East - before indiscriminate support for every one of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's excesses; before Guantanamo; before Abu Ghraib; before the leveling of Fallujah.