Despite their inability to want to relate to me as a geezer, I have great faith in the coming generation of 19-year olds, other than their inability to listen or pay attention.
A college student told likely GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush...that his brother, former President George W. Bush, was to blame for the rise of the Islamic State.
The heated confrontation took place at a town hall meeting in Reno, Nevada, according to The New York Times. Ivy Ziedrich, 19, a student at the University of Nevada, approached the former Florida governor to question him about comments he had made during the event. Bush had argued that the Obama administration's weak foreign policy was responsible for the rise of the terrorist group, also known as ISIS, in the Middle East.
Ziedrich countered that Obama wasn't to blame -- and that it was his predecessor's decision to disband the Iraqi army that made the group's formation possible.
"Your brother created ISIS," she told Bush.
What followed was a contentious exchange, according to the Times. Ziedrich accused Bush of "spouting nationalist rhetoric to get us involved in more wars," pointing out that under his brother, the U.S. had spent years in the Middle East, waging "pointless wars where we send young American men to die for the idea of American exceptionalism."
Bush responded by defending the war in Iraq. "When we left Iraq, security had been arranged, al Qaeda had been taken out," he said. "There was a fragile system that could have been brought up to eliminate the sectarian violence."
De-Ba'athification (Arabic: اجتثاث حزب البعث) refers to a Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) policy outlined in CPA Order 1 which entered into force on 16 May 2003.
The policy’s goal was to remove the Ba'ath Party's influence in the new Iraqi political system. To accomplish its goal, the policy declared that all public sector employees affiliated with the Ba'ath Party were to be removed from their positions and to be banned from any future employment in the public sector.
The policy was highly controversial among US academics, institutions, government, military, and international media and debate outlets. The policy under the Coalition Provisional Authority was officially rescinded on 28 June 2004 as part of the transfer of sovereignty to the Iraqi Interim Government on 30 June 2004.
Critics of the policy, however, claim that the policy continued under the new authority of the Iraqi Interim Government, Governing Council, and later under the elected Iraqi Parliament. Proponents of the policy contend that the policy effectively cleansed Iraqi society of Ba'athist influence, facilitating the creation of a democratic Iraqi government.
Critics argue that the policy was not only undemocratic, but also a significant factor in the deteriorating security situation throughout Iraq
Daesh is a peculiar amalgamation of Salafism/takfirism[wp] and Ba'athism. The dominant strain believes in an absolute rejection of any innovation (bid'ah[wp]) since the times of Mohammad. Any diversion from a literal reading of the Qur'an and the Hadith is blasphemy, and must be eradicated. All people and cultures judged as not conforming to Daesh's interpretation of Islam, which notably includes Jews, "Crusaders" (Westerners and Christians), "Rafidah" (principally Iranians but applies to all Shia) and atheists, are to be annihilated.
The other strand in its hierarchy and leadership is Ba’athism, a network of disenfranchised military commanders from the de-Baathification process who joined forces between 2008 and 2010. Even though Ba'athists are secular and always enforced a separation of religion and state, they are now credited with Daesh's early military successes. Ba'athists share with the Salafi leadership of Daesh a desire for rule by a self-appointed elite clique behind a single leader.
The Ba'athist commanders see the Salafi-jihad ideology as more powerful a motivating force than stale secular political ideologies. It remains to be seen how enthusiastic the Ba'athist military commanders will embrace the Salafi/takfiri ideology themselves.
The main cabinet of Daesh currently has 6 members responsible for the areas of general management, prisons, security, finance, transport and recruitment of foreign jihadis
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Introduction
Preface: The order that has governed the world since the Sykes-Picot era
The Illusion of power: The centrality of the superpowers as a function of their
overwhelming military power and deceptive media halo.
First Topic: Definition of the management of savagery and an overview of its historical
precedents
Second Topic: The path for establishing an Islamic state.
Third Topic: The most important principles and policies for implementing the plan of action and achieving, in general, the goals of the stage of the power of vexation and exhaustion; and, in particular, the goals of the stage of the management of savagery. (by the permission of God)
Section One: Mastery of the art of management
Section Two: Who leads, who manages, and who authorizes the fundamental
administrative decisions?
Section Three: Using the time-tested principles of military combat
Section Four: Using violence
Section Five: Achieving power
Section Six: Properly understanding the rules of the political game of our opponents
and their fellow travelers, and striking a balance between confrontation and
cooperation in accordance with sharia politics
Section Seven: Polarization
Section Eight: The rules of affiliation
Section Nine: Mastering the security dimension: Surveillance and infiltrating
adversaries and opponents of every kind
Section Ten: Mastering education within the movement just as it was in the first age
of Islam
Fourth Topic: The most important problems and obstacles that we will face, and ways of
dealing with them
(1) The problem of the decreasing number of true believers
(2) The problem of the lack of administrative cadres
(3) The problem of loyalty to elements in the preceding administration
(4) The problem of infiltration and spies
(5) The problem of secession or sudden about-face of individuals, groups, or regions
who completely change their loyalty (How do we make sense of it and how do we
deal with it?)
(6) The problem of excessive zeal and the problems that accompany it
Fifth Topic: Conclusion: Are there other solutions that are easier than this solution?
First Article: The battle of patience
Second Article: The struggle between the human soul and the Sunna of God in
missionary activities
Third Article: Our men and enemy soldiers under fire
Fourth Article: Universal laws adhered to by the elect and others
Fifth Article: Our method is a mercy to all beings
Sixth Article: Crisis of terms "benefit" and "harm" as examples
Seventh Article: Polarization and wealth