The Arc of Extremism - yet another feature brought to you by Anglo-American

The "axis of evil" is passé. The new nemesis of the Anglo-American-Israeli compact is the "arc of extremism." The members of this iniquitous arc, the "evil-doers" as George W. Bush might say, are Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas.

A quick look at this rogues' gallery reveals an intriguing fact. All the members, with the exception of Syria, are in effect creatures of the compact itself. Iran was a democracy until the British and Americans conspired with the Iranian military to overthrow an elected government and replace it with a dictatorship. Hezbollah was created as a reaction to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, an invasion that took thousands of lives. And Hamas arose in resistance to Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and was once even nurtured by Israel in order to undermine the Palestinian Authority, rather like the U.S. once supported the jihadists in Afghanistan to undermine Soviet authority.

So it's true: the chickens do come home to roost.