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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED? IF SADDAM WERE STILL ALIVE, THE US WOULD BEG HIM TO RETURN TO POWER

June 12, 2014 by Brad Hoff

A nice infographic from McClatchy DC.

Some analysts have asserted that ISIS had no comprehensive plan, but
merely desired to sow death and destruction in Syria. For this reason,
Western countries, as well as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and NATO member
Turkey, did not make too much of a fuss about ISIS. More shocking
is that there is growing evidence that ISIS directly benefited from
Western-Gulf aid to the Syrian rebels. Looking at the below map of
recently acquired ISIS territory, it looks like they have a very
clear plan for long-term financing.

It is well-known that NATO member Turkey has long kept an open
border policy for Islamist insurgents, including Nusra Front and
other Al-Qaeda aligned groups, to freely access Northern Syria.

The above image is currently being circulated among international
Syria analysts. It purports to show ISIS commander Mazen Ebu Muhammed
being treated in a hospital in Antakya, Turkey (Antioch) on April
16, 2014. This raises some serious questions about whether ISIS has
outside state sponsorship.

Cui bono? ISIS has been the fiercest enemy of the Kurdish groups in
Eastern Syria. The Syrian government has been content to leave the
Kurds alone, seeing in them an ally against extremism. Christian
militias have also linked up with the Kurds for the sake of mutual
survival. This explains Turkey's willingness to tolerate and help
groups like ISIS, Nusra, and Islamic Front. Turkey has been using
extremists to cleanse the borderlands of hated Kurds, Armenians,
and Syriacs -leftovers from genocides of 1915 and 1990â~@²s.

Saudi Arabia gains by having ISIS tear through Iraq. The Saudis are
deeply resentful of Iraq's pro-Shia, Iran aligned government. For
Saudi Arabia, the consequences of the American led regime change
in Iraq were disastrous, as it opened a corridor of Shia hegemony
straight from Iran to the Mediterranean (Iran-Iraq-Syria-Hezbollah).

The Maliki dictatorship has been oppressive and intolerable for Iraq's
sizeable Sunni minority, hence the reports of Iraqi Army conscripts
abandoning their weapons and uniforms as ISIS approached Mosul this
past weekend.

All external actors of the Gulf-NATO-Israel alliance have been quite
OK with ISIS and other extremists operating in Syria. Collectively
the Syrian insurgency can be likened to a pit bull: train a dog up
to kill and then let it off the leash... but there's no telling if
it'll come back to bite you. Various states have unleashed their pit
bulls on Syria for various motives -it's primarily the Western powers
that have underestimated the extent of the mess.

This week and next, American politicians and media pundits will be
expressing their outrage that Bin Ladenite radicals have taken over
much of Iraq. Yet these same voices have been cheerleading for the
Syrian rebels over the past three years. The CIA and Saudi death squads
have gotten loose, and it hasn't been the first time in recent history.

But the constant and consistent failure of US foreign policy isn't
the real story here. The real story is the immense and unimaginable
sufferings of common Iraqi and Syrian people as their states are
destabilized through never-ending interventionism.

http://levantreport....eturn-to-power/
 

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