The current lies:
Middle Easterners have been in sectarian conflict for millennia.
President Obama is responsible for the rise of ISIS because he failed to keep our troops in Iraq, and he failed to adequately support Syrian rebels.
This is partially true only in that Obama got our troops out of Iraq.
Sectarianism - There was little historic, sectarian conflict in the Middle East before the breakup of the Ottoman Empire. “The ‘problem of sectarianism’ is something that has arisen in modern times…” (1)
Religion in politics - The Mosque was one of the few places in European colonies and oppressive Middle Eastern regimes where political action was tolerated. Islamists were the only politicians outside the power structures.
Iraq - Shiite Iraqis fought for Iraq in the Iraq Iran War in spite of appeals by their coreligionists in Iran. Their greater loyalty was to Iraq over Shiism. (1b)
I submit George W Bush's ultimate purpose in the Iraq War was to create sectarianism, chaos, and perpetual war. He didn’t just stop with conquering Iraq. Within months he had thrown out the Baathists, the only people then capable of administering Iraq, and disbanded the Iraqi Army, the only institution then capable of maintaining order.
Haji Bakr was a primary strategist behind ISIS (2). Bakr had been an Iraqi Colonel working for Saddam Hussein in the Intelligence Service of the Iraqi Air Defense Forces. He may have been one of the people we should have thrown out, but we didn’t have to throw out all his subordinates freeing them to follow men like Bakr.
Iraq - Sunday’s neo con, talking heads now claim the rise of ISIS was the fault of Obama because he took the troops out of Iraq in 2011. It is true he got us out of Iraq, and if we had kept a never ending occupation force in Anbar province, we might have kept disenfranchised Sunnis from effectively rebelling against al Maliki.
Apparently, in order to maintain the new world order and, of course, to create profits for our war plutocrats and their cronies, we should aggress against and occupy the world.
Syria – Our war mongers maintain another reason ISIS is ascendant was Obama’s failure to support moderate Syrian rebels in mid 2012 early in their civil war. They fail to acknowledge Turkey, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia came together in Istanbul in 2012 to coordinate the training and arming of Syrian rebels (3). Most of those resources and rebels eventually went to ISIS. Further, Americans trained and armed the Iraqi army yet an IS force of 1,000 was able to overwhelm an Iraqi army force of 30,000 and take Mosul, Iraq (4). If there is no political solution, there will be no lasting military solution in Iraq or Syria.
Condemn the lies and speak the truth, George W Bush was the US President responsible for the rise of ISIS.
Bush didn’t go to war because of false Intel, he and Cheney created the false Intel to go to war. (5)
Bush and Cheney used torture to falsely connect Saddam Hussein with al Qaeda (6).
What are we fighting for?
Two million Vietnamese died to delay our defeat in Vietnam. How many more millions would have died for our victory? Hundreds of thousands died as a result of the Iraq war. How many more hundreds of thousands would have to die for a complete victory?
We fought against great evil but for nothing.
ARVN wouldn’t fight because we fought for a corrupt, military government in South Vietnam. ARVN knew it wasn’t worth fighting for. We eliminated Saddam Hussein only to replace him with al Maliki who refused to enfranchise the Sunnis and was then replaced by ISIS in Anbar Province. What do we offer to replace ISIS? We overthrew Gaddafi in Libya and Four Courts in Somalia only to replace them with chaos. We have offered no reasonable alternative, from Vietnam to Iraq, and continue to offer nothing but the sweet release of death.
Our neo cons too often claim international problems have military solutions. I submit they are once again partially correct. Given the corruption in our Congress, given these neo cons past abuses of power, and in order to save tens of thousands of Iranians, we should support a military option against these war mongers.
We will stop losing wars when we stop fighting unjust wars. Stop
Sources:
(1) Great Decisions 2015 by the Foreign Policy Association
(1b) p.32
(2) http://www.spiegel.de/...
(3) 10/04/2014 San Diego Union p.B8,”Syria’s Proxy War” by David Ignatius from the Washington Post
(4) 06/21/2014 The Economist p.47 “Why Iraq’s army crumbled”
(5) http://www.motherjones.com/...
(6) http://www.dailykos.com/...