The US' 'moderate Islam' mistake

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said, "We will stop racing to topple foreign regimes…" He continued, "Instead, our focus must be on defeating terrorism and destroying [the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant], and we will." 

While Trump was explaining the new foreign policy concept, he also made a historic confession.  

As the president-elect has expressed, the U.S. has a long record of changing regimes in foreign countries, toppling governments and staging coups d'état. The U.S. has formed puppet administrations loyal to them, serving the interests of the U.S., Israel and Western world, in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America for years through civil strife, military coups or overt military foreign interventions.  

The most recent ones have been experienced in Iraq, Syria and Egypt. While the U.S. expected "democracy" from the Arab Spring and did not "spare" its support, when it saw that instead of democratic movement, it was radicals that had replaced the "abandoned and toppled" administrations, it hit the brakes but has yet to find a solution.  

The U.S. abandoned the shah of Iran, Saddam Hussein, Moammar Gadhafi and Hosni Mubarak the moment it saw that its interests could no longer be guaranteed. Then, it saw that democratic systems did not replace these dictators that it had supported and strengthened in time, but instead movements that had nothing to do with democracy came to these countries. The U.S. is now in a situation where it does not know what to do in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt. If Trump said these words after seeing this reality, then it should be considered important. 

The last big mistake the U.S. made is the "moderate Islam" mistake. With this thesis, which is not based on any truth, it...