Who's the devil the other or the west?

The figure of the devil has haunted our collective consciousness since the dawn of time. It structures our societies, whether religious or  secular, to identify an enemy. And at some point, when circumstances demand it, we are obliged to associate with him or make a pact with him. At another point, a friend becomes the devil, and you can't talk to him - you have to kill him.
During the Second World War, we made a pact with Stalin to bring down a devil deemed more formidable: Hitler. In Korea and Vietnam, we negotiated an end to conflict with the Khmer Rouge. In Northern Ireland, the British finally sat down around a table with representatives of the IRA, just as the French had done a few years earlier with the FLN in Algeria. More recently, the Americans negotiated for years with the Taliban, another terrorist group, finally handing them the keys to Afghani