Well done, Alan, completely disregard desertification, starvation, flooding, any inconvenient fact at all. A really intelligent, considered response "To answer someone's question" to you.
If you deserve a prize, it's for world-beating powers to keep your blinkers firmly in place. A conversation with a rubber wall would have delivered a greater, relevant response.
You win: no point remains in holding things up right in front of you - you simply refuse to believe your own eyes. I have never, in my life, come acoss a similar mindset outwith a religious meeting. I avoid political ones (meetings) but about those I have choice; with the former I did not...
But you have inadvertently explained how ISIS is psychologically possible.
Rob C