COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN
An organization, such as ISIS, can only rise out of nothing
and literally change a region with a great deal of help.
It cannot be otherwise.
ISIS has been assisted, supplied, and, in some cases,
trained by Western interests. We have had countless little revelations of these
activities, although we never read about them in the corporate press.
ISIS was even supplied some while back by some of these
interests with terrible things like small amounts of nerve gas to use on people
so that the United States could blame Syrian forces. Acts just do not come any
more cynical and evil than that.
ISIS serves the interest of assisting to bring down a
legitimate state, Syria, a state, by the way, which attacks no one and which
has never threatened legitimate American interests. They already served to eliminate
a leader in Iraq, sending him running off in fear, whom the United States and
Israel greatly disliked.
ISIS also serves to solidify the planned smashing of Iraq
into mini-states. This was particularly clear in the case of the Kurds, who received
great assistance in fighting ISIS, effectively defending their own part of the (former)
country against those who now run other parts.
The public does not recognize what is happening because news
coverage in our major corporate press is selective and always supports
government policy, even black operations policy.
If the United States were serious about fighting ISIS, they
could eliminate them in very short order, but they are not serious. They
display only token efforts, and increasingly, the reality of these efforts is
the destruction of Syrian lives and property – in effect, acting as air support
for the terrorists.
Also, the United States appears gradually to be working its
way towards direct intervention against the Syrian government, blubbering all along
the way about the horrors of ISIS.
When ISIS has served its filthy purpose, maybe it will be
seriously attacked. Who knows? But, for now, America’s attacks on ISIS are
little more than show and perhaps curbing those who’ve exceeded their brief. After
all, these terrorist groups – and there are several doing lots of killing in
Syria - do contain some genuinely horrible people, even if they were assembled and
assisted through American efforts. The American attacks really assist the
terrorists in Syria by attacking Syrian infrastructure.
Turkey, with the blessings of the United States and Saudi
Arabia, has given them shelter and border access to Syria, as well as arms
shipments. Israel too is involved in surreptitious support, including hospital
treatment for wounded fighters in the North and secret arms exports, as is the
absolute monarchy of Qatar. And now that proud and fearless defender of
American values, David Cameron, has joined the fray in the name of “fighting
terror.” My, what a brave fellow he is.
The actual terror that is going on is the destruction of
legitimate state, a beautiful and historic land. It is being carved into
smaller entities, just as Iraq has been. This comes at the cost of hundreds of
thousands of lives and the creation of millions of refugees, but the states secretly
working on this dirty project only cry crocodile tears over all the deliberately-induced
horror.
It’s just one part of a savage scheme to “give birth to a
new Middle East,” as former Secretary of State Condi Rice expressed it. So far
we have seen a million die in Iraq, aerial bombardment of Yemen, Libya torn
apart and reduced to chaos, and Egypt’s fledgling democracy destroyed with a
return of dictatorship.
Now, all of this destruction does make people like Mr.
Netanyahu very happy, but for countless millions, and for a generation to come,
human misery is the chief product of the effort.
Of course, it is this very scheme producing the flood of
refugees to Europe, refugees the United States refuses even to help and David Cameron
treats as rabble and scum.
The whole business is a psychopathic politician’s dream:
inflict all the killing and destruction you wish while condemning the hired help
and posing as someone horrified at what they have done. Compared to this, the
stunts of Hitler’s Germany to cover its bloody trail - as when it dressed
prisoners in Polish uniforms and shot them at the border, claiming they were Polish
soldiers attacking Germany – seem amateurish.
The face of evil is no longer merely banal, it is slick and sophisticated
and leering at all we hold as values.
