You seem to see political correctness everywhere you look. The main point of my comment was not about political correctness, it was about smugness and inaccuracy. You can disagree with t walgamuth's use of the word "destabilize", but his point is not absurd. Violence in the ME has intensified since our invasion of Iraq. Did our invasion contribute to that intensification? Maybe it did, maybe it didn't. T walgamuth and I are at a disadvantage in making that determination because we can't match your expertise in, well, everything in the world, but from our laymen's point of view, "destabilize" is not that far off.