The Daesh blowback against France, most gung-ho of the U.S. allies in bombing Daesh as Russia moved in, is reminiscent of the often mentioned anti-Castro connection in the assassination of John Kennedy for abandoning them in their 1962 Bay of Pigs invasion.
As yet the blowback has spared the U.K. and Canada, and also Jordan and the Gulf Arabs, who have either pulled out of the air raids against Daesh altogether or sharply toned down their participation. Maybe they saw the backlash coming, or they even knew something.
Jooneed J. Khan is a journalist and human rights activist based in Montreal.
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