JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE GREAT HYPOCRISY AND CYNICISM OF WESTERN COUNTRIES NOT ALLOWING ISIS (AKA DAESH) RECRUITS TO RETURN HOME – WITHOUT A DOUBT ISIS SERVED AMERICAN PURPOSES – AND IN THE PAST MANY SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE SERVED ABROAD IN SOME PRETTY QUESTIONABLE CONFLICTS AND WERE ALLOWED TO RETURN HOME – THE NATURE OF ISIS AND AMERICAN HYBRID WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST

John Chuckman


COMMENT TO AN ARTICLE BY DAMIAN WILSON IN RUSSIA TODAY


“Britain taking back ISIS kids doesn’t mean Shamima Begum will walk free & it might strike a blow against terrorism”


There is an immense amount of hypocrisy and cynicism from Western governments concerning the return of citizens who been part of ISIS (aka, Daesh).

The fact is that terrorist groups like ISIS in Syria were supported and supplied by the various Western governments to topple the government of Syria. I have little doubt that even the resources for recruitment came from the same sources.

All such organizations, as also al Nusra, are not authentic jihadi groups. They are mercenary groups, recruited from all over the planet, mercenary groups disguised as jihadis. Part of a new kind of American hybrid warfare. It was used in destroying Libya.

Were they genuine jihadis, Israel along with the corrupt princes of Saudi Arabia would have been their first-priority targets.

But they have never attacked those targets. Never. Instead they attack a government that the US and Israel want to destroy. Very odd kind of jihad.

And where did they originally get all their weapons and transportation and supplies and finances and intelligence from?  I remember early photos of them riding around in the desert equipped with a small fleet of brand new pick-up trucks and waving AK-47s. They also would need salaries and food and other support. They got it from a group of countries who worked together, functioning as a kind of secret club, for the purpose of destroying Syria – the US, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Britain, France, some Gulf States, and Turkey.

Numerous times, helicopters from the US or Israel have been observed ferrying members from one location to another. Al Nusra fighters have been seen treated by Israeli hospitals in the north. Arms caches discovered by the Syrian army at various points contain weapons made in America or Israel or Bulgaria (a source of arms often used for covert CIA operations).

Fighting ISIS has provided the US with a perfect excuse for staying in places where it is not wanted by authorities, as in Syria and Iraq. Fighting ISIS has also provided an excuse for the US to bomb what it wanted to bomb in those countries, the US effectively providing air force support by destroying national infrastructure in Syria or Iraq.

I can understand the reluctance of some to take back volunteers to such organizations, however since the organizations were actually working for, and supported by, Western interests, it is hypocritical and brutally cynical to not allow citizens to return. After all, we’ve always had people joining various causes abroad as soldiers of fortune – as in Spanish Civil War, or, more infamously, in the secret apartheid war in Nationalist South Africa (Nationalist interests used to run cryptic classified adds in Western newspapers about matters like joining a “turkey shoot”), and many more – and they were allowed to return home.