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I'm George Galloway Member of Parliament

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anti-war campaigner and the presenter of

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comment on press tv every week at this

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time I answer the best question that has

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been sent into ask Galloway # ask

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Galloway and N Hussein's question is the

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one that got the nod this week her

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question was this is Isis the result of

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the Arab Spring and how much of a role

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did the West play in both well 2 minutes

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is not enough time to fully adre all my

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views on Isis on the Arab Spring and on

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the western role in both but here's how

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I see it the old order much of which

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still persists in most of the Arab world

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the old order could not persist the

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decrepit sclero

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rotten dictatorships of the Arab world

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were bound to fall when they started to

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fall first in Tunisia and then in Egypt

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Western countries who had been the main

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beneficiaries of the old order rushed to

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try and influence the outcome they

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haven't given up and they haven't gone

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away they sought to morph the Arab

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Spring in directions against targets

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that would be more useful uh for them

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and the most uh gross of these is the

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one that we see being played out in

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Syria they tried to overthrow the Syrian

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regime they have completely failed to do

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so but they have killed more than

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200,000 people and torn apart the fabric

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of an ancient Arab country and the old

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regime in part is back in Tunisia and

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back with a vengeance in Egypt so the

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West is playing a big role and has done

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throughout the Arab Spring as to Isis

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this Springs out of a well of fanaticism

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and extremism that again was influenced

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by Western policy beginning in

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Afghanistan throughout the

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1980s it's true that there are many

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unanswered questions about the

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capacities of Isis and and it may very

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well be that apart from weapons that

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they helped themselves to after they'd

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been delivered by Western benefactors to

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the so-called I emphasize so-called

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Syrian moderate opposition and after

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they had taken a large stock of weapons

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from the Iraqi Army that they defeated

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in the west and the north of the country

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it may be that they have other

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benefactors too just like Al-Qaeda and

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the phenomenon of this extremism

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generally there are many unanswered

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questions but I'm not one of those who

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believes in The Conspiracy Theory the

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Isis is somehow the product of uh

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Zionism or the product of the United

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States or Britain this is a genuine

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authentic upsurge of utter barbarous

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hideous head chopping throat cutting

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crucifying extremism and it's the kind

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of extremism that is delighting the

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people who hate all the Muslims whatever

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sect they belong to and the kind of

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extremism that's bringing disaster to

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the Arab world thanks for that question

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n Hussein I'm George Galloway ask

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Galloway hash ask Galloway I'll answer

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the best one again God willing next week