25.05.2017 - 18:49 If the west really wanted to form a global coalition against terrorism, they would instantly ally with Russia. The fact they do not, puts civilians in danger. The west has long practised the faulty doctrine of ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’. It is what led the US, UK, France and West Germany to arm Ba’athist Iraq in the 1980s, a traditional Soviet ally, against the newly formed Islamic Republic of Iran. Of course, when the Iraq that the west armed engaged in a dispute