[banads]

There is lots of evidence of the US supporting gangsters throughout the middle east and then later going to war against them. So much so, that the intelligence agencies responsible invented a word for it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowback_(intelligence)

[dang]

Please stop using HN for political and ideological battle. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[banads]

Please elaborate on how this comment is a political or ideological battle? A person asked a specific question about US history, and I replied with relevant historical documentation.

How could I have answered their question in a way that does not destroy HN?