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American Isis fighter
says 'war on Islam' has made US more vulnerable to attack in video message to
Donald Trump
African American Isis
fighter appears in propaganda video saying Islamophobia will help fuel support
globally
This is just a stupid article giving publicity to low-grade propaganda.
ISIS is an American-Israeli-Saudi creation with generous
assistance from Britain and France plus a couple of others. Turkey was deeply
involved, but appears now to have backed off.
Reports like this one serve only to keep the murderous charade
going, the charade of gangs of non-uniformed mercenaries - people who receive
regular paychecks, training, supplies, and air support - posing as jihadi warriors.
They serve both to do some of America’s dirty work and to
perpetuate the myth of a vast uprising of Muslim terrorists in the world, the
very myth which supports America’s decade-and-a-half-long blood-drenched war
through the Middle East in support of Neocon imperial goals.
It still amazes me the way our corporate press reports the doings
of ISIS as though it were some independent entity. The reporting just provides more
evidence, as though more were needed, of how the establishment regards the
general public’s intelligence, and that’s remarkably low.
Yet they largely get away with it. The press and government
officials are never seriously questioned or doubted. Nor is there ever any
investigative reporting into any of these matters, outside of independents and
some other government news services.
My favorite ridiculous example is the CBC’s Middle East correspondent
who regularly reports from Jerusalem where he magically obtains material about
places like the heart of Syria. But all the major Western news services are the
same. None wants to be viewed as upsetting America’s elaborately prepared schemes
and narratives. Their governments and their major advertisers would simply not
tolerate it.
That’s why we never see interviews with people actually in
the thick of things, like Assad or Gadhafi or even the head of Hamas or Hezbollah
or even academics with some independence and deep understanding. We only hear
other people, people representing definite interests, telling us what to think.
It is the old story of the “big lie” repeated often. There
are so many instances of it now in Washington, no one can easily tell just what
is happening. From tales of Russia and Trump to the last rag-tag lies still
about the Kennedy assassination. As far as official sources go – both government
and corporate press - we live in something pretty close to a
hermitically-sealed space in which nothing too “dangerous” is allowed to enter.
ISIS is a tool, a tool of governments. It is not a cause.
And it is not independent.
Individual members do sometimes misspeak or carry on in terrible
ways, but what else could you expect from a mercenary army of violent idiots
recruited from a dozen broken lands?
Of course, some fools from Western countries have taken the
bait provided on the Internet and other places, providing the press and
government officials with neat anecdotes to frighten people and keep the phony
narrative going. Endless crap about recruitment and terrorist conditioning.
But this relatively tiny number of fools and discontents have
nothing to do with the aims or direction of ISIS. Their experience is nothing
but what intelligence services call “blowback.” They serve also to reveal to
intelligence services where there may be some disagreeable sympathies at home,
something always to be looked into by the kind of people we see in the FBI, for
example, whose history includes such glorious achievements as providing about a
third of the membership of the old American Communist Party.
Saying the tiny numbers of foolish ISIS volunteers from the
West are any real threat is much like claiming a few brainless groupies on the rock
music circuit do something important in popular music.
Indeed, America has seen to it that there is now a
substantial concentration of ISIS in Afghanistan, a recent story from
Afghanistan suggesting eight thousand of them now there, Afghanistan being yet
another land America is trying still to completely conquer.
ISIS, if it were indeed what its publicity claims it to be,
would have little interest in fighting Taleban.
But America does fight Taleban for local control and now appears
to be recruiting unofficial allies in the form of ISIS and others, just as it
did in its efforts to destroy Syria and Libya.
Remember, in the original Afghan invasion, America avoided
what it did in Vietnam – that is, sending in a vast traditional army of foot
soldiers, a true disaster by every measure for the Pentagon. Something which,
at its height, came close to creating a new civil war in America and stamped
America’s military with shame and disapproval from the public for years.
What America did in Afghanistan was to bomb heavily in
support of the Taleban's natural political opponents in the country, tribes of the
so-called Northern Alliance, many of whose members were people no more modern
than, and just as ruthless as, the Taleban. Their only merit was that they
opposed the Taleban long before America arrived on the scene.
The Northern Alliance were the guys, behind a wall of
carpet-bombing supplied by America, who actually chased the Taleban into the
hills, not American soldiers. And no one at the time dared pursue the Taleban
into their natural redoubts, so over time they have gradually returned with a
vengeance. Although America did plenty of bombing in places they thought
Taleban might be hiding, as in Pakistan, undoubtedly killing thousands of
innocent people.
The Taleban is a threat to no one, except to the government
America has installed in Afghanistan and to the Pentagon’s pride. The Taleban,
despite endless propaganda in the press, are not international terrorists bent
on subverting the West. They are just a tribal party interested in governing their
own land of Afghanistan without foreign interference, as they were doing when
America’s intervention first started.
American soldiers in the original invasion defeated no one
and served mainly "to secure" “liberated” areas. Their work consisted
of terrifying house-to-house raids, blowing down doors and holding whole
families at gunpoint, running around in armored vehicles shooting at things
they hadn’t even identified, many times massacring masses of people and
establishing secret torture centers and prisons.
American planes joined in the same dirty work, strafing or
bombing groups and parties they hadn’t even properly identified. More than
once, they were fooled by malicious reports into killing innocent groups an
enemy wanted killed. This is, after all, a land of ancient grievances and
grudges, a tribal place resembling a little the American Ozarks during old
blood feuds.
But the Taleban has remained strong because it is not just a
party but virtually a basic division in the country. You cannot defeat them in
any traditional sense of war, unless you are ready to go into mass exterminations,
something I believe only the terrible publicity has stopped the US from doing.
There are, indeed, no ethics or principles in anything we
see anywhere from contemporary Washington’s murderous efforts in country after
country. But there is always a keen awareness of public opinion. Plenty of spokespeople,
plenty of press releases, plenty of denials of this or that, and always a
readiness to come down hard on anyone from the corporate press who breaks
ranks. It all has to be given a constant sense of everyone’s agreeing the right
thing is being done and the truth is being told.
Indeed, there have been mass exterminations several times. A
group of about three thousand Taleban prisoners were “disappeared” in the early
days after the invasion. Donald Rumsfeld, a man who would have been perfectly content
working for the Nazi hierarchy had that been his time and place, was quoted in
public as saying those prisoners should be walled away for life or all killed. Imagine,
a man who knew nothing about a group of prisoners thousands of miles away,
saying that?
Well, one of the local Northern Alliance warlords allied with
America perfectly accommodated Rumsfeld. General Dostum had his people put the
prisoners in batches into the backs of trucks which were then sealed up and driven
out into the hot desert until they expired. Three thousand of them while
American troops stood around watching and picking their noses. A Scottish film-maker
actually made a documentary about it.
Now, America's current wave of killing Afghans with bombs –
involving everything from striking hospitals and schools to such horrors as using
America’s gigantic non-nuclear bomb (called the Massive Ordnance Air Blast or MOAB),
which created devastating effects and pollution on a colossal scale - is going
to be supplemented by paid ISIS lunatics.
Imagine the morality of people who would secretly ship thousands
of cutthroats into a country to let loose? Well, that’s America today. Of
course, they are only repeating something they’ve done now a number times and
largely with success, if you judge the chaos and ruins of a Libya as success,
as surely the Pentagon does.
Of course, when ISIS (or al Qaeda or any of a number of
other such created outfits) is sent somewhere else like this, it gives the US
an escape refuge for them, as when we saw clearly, thanks to Russian
intelligence, hundreds of ISIS thugs being helped to evacuate parts of Syria and
given a safe-conduct by American forces.
