Iran vs Iraq is a very good example how the post world war implicit colonization of west has wrecked this region. I am sure you wont deny the obvious which is US helping the dictator saddam and wanting to hurt Iran through proxy. Just go back a little bit in the history you will find many analogies-Why north and south korea were at logger heads and let us keep in mind the korean war of US.
As to these exagerrated impact of current conflicts I only want to say what Graham Fuller the vice chairman of CIA told in his report,which is this
...He notes that the principal horrors of the 20th century came almost exclusively from strictly secular regimes. Leopold II of Belgium in the Congo, Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin and Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. It was Europeans who visited their world wars twice upon the rest of the world -- two devastating global conflicts with no remote parallels in Islamic history...
