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Airstrikes: The Ridiculous Revenge Strategy Against ISIS

February 6, 2015 By Mohammad Tomazy 2 Comments

ISIS recently released a footage showing the captured Jordanian pilot being burnt alive in a Hollywoodish scene.

Technically, the brutal scene was professionally filmed. It was taken from various angles with high-resolution lenses. They also prepared the scene very well, as there was a cage and the fighters wore military uniforms inspired by traditional Afghani dress. ISIS succeeded in sending a brutal message to the world.

The message is also intended to terrify members of the coalition against them.

Airstrikes against ISIS’s locations are, so far, the mainstay strategy. However, al-Qaida affiliated groups have no pyramidal command, but are cluster groups that share a common ideology. They often fight each other for zones of influence. For example, ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra are bitter enemies, although they have the same ideology.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Afghanistan, Africa, Al Qaeda, al-Anbar, al-Qaida, Amman, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Baghdad, blowback, Daesh, death penalty, endless war, Human Rights, i24news, Iran, Iraq, Iraq National Army, Iraqi News, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State, Jordan, Jurf al-Sakhr, King Abdullah II, Kurdistan, Kurds, League of the Righteous, Maath al-Kassasba, MENA, Middle East, Peshmerga, propaganda, Qasem Suleimani, Sajida al-Rishawi, Salafism, Saudi Arabia, Shiite, Shiite Islam, Sunni, Sunni Islam, Syria, Takreet, terrorism, The Independent, Tikrit, Wahabism, War, Yadollah Javani

America’s Perpetual Protection Racket in Iraq (Part 1)

October 27, 2014 By Ron Fullwood 6 Comments

At my most cynical, it’s hard not to feel like we’re subject and victim to a perpetual protection racket where our nation’s past military misadventures in the Mideast and Asia are primed and positioned to spark and erupt into sectarian violence in concert with each other, just to keep the U.S. military in the protection business. The United States stirs up trouble then promises to protect hapless folks in the way of our reckless, opportunistic aggression from the effects and consequences of our own blundering militarism.

We saw an example of that lingering, reflexive paternalism earlier this summer when President Obama used the refusal of a sizable number of the Iraqi army to defend the government against an advancing ISIS force as a pretense for U.S. military response.

The political cards had been deliberately laid out in Iraq by his predecessor in a way that both compelled our government to respond as both an ally and an adversary of Iraqis. The government in Iraq had fallen. All that remained was the appearance of democracy, much like Saddam’s own rule; complete with a paper Parliament left to squabble over whatever scraps of their country that haven’t been sullied, stepped on, and stolen by their arrogant invading overlords.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, National News Tagged With: al-Anbar, al-Qaida, Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani, Axis of Evil, Baghdad, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Golden Mosque of Samarra, Imam Ali shrine, Iran, Iraq, Islam, MENA, Middle East, Muqtada al-Sadr, Najaf, Nouri al-Maliki, Project for the New American Century, Saddam Hussein, Samarra, Shia Islam, Sunni Islam, War

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