Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: (2004) America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror; by Mahmood Mamdani

A look a the how and why of jihadi reign including cold war, Afghanistan and role of US - CIA in attempting to win one over Soviet regime by supplying money and arms to Pakistan with no accounting and no questions asked.

Some of us have lived though the times and some have lost more than sleep over the events, some have lost near and dear due to the "let them run amok as long as it is elsewhere". Still, a good book to inform those that only saw a one-up over Soviets as a good thing at any cost - to someone else - that sometimes when you feed a neighbour's stock or baby to the wolf it won't be a sated and grateful wolf you find at the door, it might just be one that takes yours next, being used to the idea and the taste and not familiar with an idea of it being wrong.

Perhaps the look ought to have gone further back and taken in the very core of any totalitarian philosophy that insists on conversion at any cost, usually preferred cost being the lives of others to be converted or eliminated. This is generally done in name of philosophy by any other name but the end game is usually the same, control of the world's assets, land, money, oil, minerals, women (free slave workers to serve and reproduce), lebensraum.