[nickkline]

Which creates an environment that extremist groups use to successfully radicalize large groups of people frustrated by the rampant & immoral corruption. (At least that was my biggest takeaway)

[kelvin0]

In turn these Extremist groups are funded by the CIA and Pentagon and fight each other.

http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-cia-pentagon-i...

It's the circle of (a corrupt) life ...

[TeMPOraL]

I.e. if extremism is flammable and tends to explode, the US figured out how to harness it and built an internal combustion engine fueled by it...

[alanwatts]

the "machine", man