Un-effing-believable…
According to a think tank that does contract work for NATO and the Israeli government, the West should not destroy ISIS, the fascist Islamist extremist group that is committing genocide and ethnically cleansing minority groups in Syria and Iraq.
Why? The so-called Islamic State “can be a useful tool in undermining” Iran, Hezbollah, Syria and Russia, argues the think tank’s director.
You read that correctly. A “think tank” partially funded by tax dollars just gave an alternative answer to “WAR! What is it good for?”
I know what some may be tempted to think this is a distraction from what we need to focus on, which is the election. But I think that’s a mistake. It is very much an election year maneuver in my humble opinion. I’ll explain below another of one Inbar’s disgusting quotes.
As for the argument that defeating ISIS would make the Middle East more stable, Inbar maintained: “Stability is not a value in and of itself. It is desirable only if it serves our interests.”
“Instability and crises sometimes contain portents of positive change,” he added.
Inbar stressed that the West’s “main enemy” is not the self-declared Islamic State; it is Iran. He accused the Obama administration of “inflat[ing] the threat from IS in order to legitimize Iran as a ‘responsible’ actor that will, supposedly, fight IS in the Middle East.”
What’s happening is that Neocons like Sheldon Adelson have their ass handed to them in the failed campaigns of Cruz, Rubio and Jeb. They have also realized for the moment that Trump’s campaign is a loser. So, the only chance they have is to put pressure on Clinton and congress to implement some of their policies. This is why many of them have not just endorsed Clinton, but they are vocal about it. It’s simple: they want her to rip up the Iran deal, resume sanctions and take out Assad.
So far Hillary has rejected their overtures and we need it to stay this way.
Lastly, I’m really impressed by this Salon reporter, Ben Norton, who for once dug a bit deeper to provide context and actually show why this policy is insane.
In the 1980s, Israel adopted a similar policy. It supported right-wing Islamist groups like Hamas in order to undermine the Palestine Liberation Organization, or PLO, a coalition of various left-wing nationalist and communist political parties.
“Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” Avner Cohen, a retired Israeli official who worked in Gaza for more than 20 years, told The Wall Street Journal.