The tangled web of foreign wars and terrorism | Letters

Associate Professor Jake Lynch and others on the causes of terrorism and possible links to wars of intervention by the westPaul Mason (G2, 27 May) is wrong to claim that the blowback theory is irrelevant in the case of the Manchester attack. Blowback theory is most definitely relevant. It is not confined to “blam[ing] Islamist terrorism directly on western expeditionary warfare”, as Mason incorrectly states. Islamic State germinated in the scorched earth left behind when we removed t