> At times Mr. Assange seems to let his anti-West ideology take over completely. On the night of the Paris attacks last year, which left 130 people dead, @wikil

> At times Mr. Assange seems to let his anti-West ideology take over completely. On the night of the Paris attacks last year, which left 130 people dead, @wikileaks tweeted: “At least 39 dead tonight in Paris terror attacks. 250k dead in Syria & Iraq. Both a direct result of US, UK, France feeding Sunni extremists.” So, here is the thing, I fail to see any radical anti-West ideology in that tweet. I think it is a fairly popular point of view, based on a reasonable interpretation of historical fact, that the involvement of those three countries in the middle east over the last century or so has led to the rise of terrorism in the region. Additionally, recent interventions have definitely not helped. This is, in fact, the kind of point of view that you'd see in mainstream news in plenty of countries around the world. You could make the argument that the night of the attacks might be poor timing to tweet this if you read as "finally, this countries got what it deserved for so many more dead elsewhere!". But you can also read it as "our leaders have been pursuing bad policy that is hurting hundreds of thousands abroad and actually came back indirectly to hurt us today as well, this is sad and it's sad that it would have been avoidable". That's not any more anti-West than protesting the Vietnam war was un-American. It is also a reasonable thing to bring up when the gut reaction to an attack like this is to escalate violence, even when it is fairly well established that doing so leads to more recruits for terrorist groups. Also, I wonder how many people wouldn't be a little bit radical and a little bit anti-X-country if they had been persecuted by said country and forced to hole up in an embassy for 3+ years...