I have seen people with Far Right sympathy frequently quoting Chomsky on matters critical of US. I hope they wont overlook this one because it clearly goes against their beliefs. Inevitable is a strong word, but the appearance of ISIS and the general spread of radical jihadism is a fairly natural outgrowth of Washington wielding its sledgehammer at the fragile society of Iraq, which was barely hanging together after a decade of US-UK sanctions so onerous that the respected international diplomats who administered them via the UN both resigned in protest, charging that they were genocidal. One of the most respected mainstream US Middle East analysts, former CIA operative Graham Fuller, recently wrote that I think the United States is one of the key creators of [ISIS]. The United States did not plan the formation of ISIS, but its destructive interventions in the Middle East and the war in Iraq were the basic causes of the birth of ISIS. He is correct, I think. The situation is a disaster for the US, but is a natural result of its invasion. One of the grim consequences of US-UK aggression was to inflame sectarian conflicts that are now tearing Iraq to shreds, and have spread over the whole region, with awful consequences.
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 04:56:27 +0000