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marmar

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Sun Sep 14, 2014, 10:49 AM Sep 2014

How the West Created the Islamic State


How the West Created the Islamic State

Sunday, 14 September 2014 00:00
By Nafeez Ahmed, Medium | News Analysis


Part 1: Our Terrorists

“This is an organisation that has an apocalyptic, end-of-days strategic vision which will eventually have to be defeated,” Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Pentagon press conference in August.


Military action is necessary to halt the spread of the ISIS/IS “cancer,” said President Obama. In his much anticipated address, he called for expanded airstrikes across Iraq and Syria, and new measures to arm and train Iraqi and Kurdish ground forces.

“The only way to defeat (IS) is to stand firm and to send a very straightforward message,”declared Prime Minister Cameron. “A country like ours will not be cowed by these barbaric killers.”


Missing from the chorus of outrage, however, has been any acknowledgement of the integral role of covert US and British regional military intelligence strategy in empowering and even directly sponsoring the very same virulent Islamist militants in Iraq, Syria and beyond, that went on to break away from al-Qaeda and form ‘ISIS’, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or now simply, the Islamic State (IS).

Since 2003, Anglo-American power has secretly and openly coordinated direct and indirect support for Islamist terrorist groups linked to al-Qaeda across the Middle East and North Africa. This ill-conceived patchwork geostrategy is a legacy of the persistent influence of neoconservative ideology, motivated by longstanding but often contradictory ambitions to dominate regional oil resources, defend an expansionist Israel, and in pursuit of these, re-draw the map of the Middle East.

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Divide and rule in Iraq

“It’s not that we don’t want the Salafis to throw bombs,”said one US government defense consultant in 2007.“It’s who they throw them at – Hezbollah, Moqtada al-Sadr, Iran, and at the Syrians, if they continue to work with Hezbollah and Iran.”


Early during the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq, the US covertly supplied arms to al-Qaeda affiliated insurgents even while ostensibly supporting an emerging Shi’a-dominated administration. ..................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://truth-out.org/news/item/26177-how-the-west-created-the-islamic-state



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How the West Created the Islamic State (Original Post) marmar Sep 2014 OP
Facts matter or at least they should AuntPatsy Sep 2014 #1
You know Baker has spoken recently about how they TBF Sep 2014 #2

TBF

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2. You know Baker has spoken recently about how they
Sun Sep 14, 2014, 10:54 AM
Sep 2014

never should have removed Saddam Hussein - he kept order in that part of the world. He said it at the time too and of course W was too arrogant to listen.

Now it's a power vacuum and keeps getting worse and worse ...

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