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Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the top Shiite cleric in Iraq, is calling for airdrops of relief supplies.
“The West,” specifically the U.S. and its UK parrot- er, “partner”- have a moral obligation to answer the call. (Not that morality ever guides their decisions, only cold, ruthless, imperialist power calculations do.) Those are the nations that destabilized Iraq. The U.S. launched the Islamofascist movement with its anti-Soviet crusade in Afghanistan under the Carter and Reagan regimes, starting before the 1979 Soviet invasion, as Zbigniew Brzezinski, a violently Russian-hating Pole and Carter's “National Security Adviser,” has bragged. The the U.S.' pals, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, are the sources and supporters of the Islamofascist movement, which they in fact created, a Frankenstein's Monster which has now gotten out of their control.
The U.S. consistently does either too much or too little. First it stuck its claws into Afghanistan to prevent the social progress the Soviets tried to impose on that pre-feudal society. Then it abandoned it, not caring what happened next, once the Soviets threw in the towel. That left the country to degenerate into warlordism, resulting in the destruction of Kabul by competing warlords, and ultimately the rise of the Taliban.
In Iraq, Bush II committed naked aggression in violation of international law, cycled through a series of puppet governments, then split. His regime created a perfect opening for U.S. arch enemy and bete noire to go in Iran, which had been denied territory under Hussein, and exert great influence now that fellow Shiites had supplanted the Sunni minority who had dominated during Hussein's bloodthirsty rule. Leaving a mess for his successor Obama to try and clean up, when the Bush-appointed prime minister Nouri al-Maliki refused to grant U.S. troops immunity under Iraqi law so they could commit crimes with impunity as a condition of a continued U.S. troop “presence,” Obama pulled out and bragged about fulfilling a campaign pledge to “end the Iraq war.” (I think he broke every other promise, including one he broke before he was even elected, namely to “filibuster” a bill granting immunity from civil suits to telecoms that had participated in a warrantless massive NSA spying program. He didn't even vote against the bill, but voted FOR it. He's proven to be a serial double-crosser.)
In Syria, where the U.S. had a whole year to aid the uprising against the awful Assad tyranny, the Obama regime dithered, which ultimately allowed Islamofascists to move in and become dominant. Now three years on, it will be very difficult to uproot them from there. Assad played with fire by leaving the Islamofascists alone and concentrating on crushing the “moderate” original opposition, who also had to content with attacks from the Islamofascists. This played into Assad's propaganda line that he was “fighting terrorism,” and put the original rebels on the ropes.
“The West,” specifically the U.S. and its UK parrot- er, “partner”- have a moral obligation to answer the call. (Not that morality ever guides their decisions, only cold, ruthless, imperialist power calculations do.) Those are the nations that destabilized Iraq. The U.S. launched the Islamofascist movement with its anti-Soviet crusade in Afghanistan under the Carter and Reagan regimes, starting before the 1979 Soviet invasion, as Zbigniew Brzezinski, a violently Russian-hating Pole and Carter's “National Security Adviser,” has bragged. The the U.S.' pals, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, are the sources and supporters of the Islamofascist movement, which they in fact created, a Frankenstein's Monster which has now gotten out of their control.
The U.S. consistently does either too much or too little. First it stuck its claws into Afghanistan to prevent the social progress the Soviets tried to impose on that pre-feudal society. Then it abandoned it, not caring what happened next, once the Soviets threw in the towel. That left the country to degenerate into warlordism, resulting in the destruction of Kabul by competing warlords, and ultimately the rise of the Taliban.
In Iraq, Bush II committed naked aggression in violation of international law, cycled through a series of puppet governments, then split. His regime created a perfect opening for U.S. arch enemy and bete noire to go in Iran, which had been denied territory under Hussein, and exert great influence now that fellow Shiites had supplanted the Sunni minority who had dominated during Hussein's bloodthirsty rule. Leaving a mess for his successor Obama to try and clean up, when the Bush-appointed prime minister Nouri al-Maliki refused to grant U.S. troops immunity under Iraqi law so they could commit crimes with impunity as a condition of a continued U.S. troop “presence,” Obama pulled out and bragged about fulfilling a campaign pledge to “end the Iraq war.” (I think he broke every other promise, including one he broke before he was even elected, namely to “filibuster” a bill granting immunity from civil suits to telecoms that had participated in a warrantless massive NSA spying program. He didn't even vote against the bill, but voted FOR it. He's proven to be a serial double-crosser.)
In Syria, where the U.S. had a whole year to aid the uprising against the awful Assad tyranny, the Obama regime dithered, which ultimately allowed Islamofascists to move in and become dominant. Now three years on, it will be very difficult to uproot them from there. Assad played with fire by leaving the Islamofascists alone and concentrating on crushing the “moderate” original opposition, who also had to content with attacks from the Islamofascists. This played into Assad's propaganda line that he was “fighting terrorism,” and put the original rebels on the ropes.
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