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IS and terrorism – Vivid consequence of interfering in an independent state’s internal affairs
IS and terrorism – Vivid consequence of interfering in an independent state’s internal affairs
19/12/15
When IS has risen to be the most wicked
and terrified terrorist group that the world has known, there’s a question
arise: Where did this terrorist organization came out?
Most of the Western countries say that
ISIL was effectively created by Bashar al-Assad and he created the conditions
in Syria
that allowed ISIL to flourish. But, there is a hard-to-believe allegation that
is given the CIA-funded
al Qaeda had been used as a facade by the US
to achieve its own geopolitical and national interests over the past two
decades, so ISIS was nothing more than al
Qaeda 2.0, even there was no actual evidence of just this.
That
may all have changed now when a declassified secret US government document
obtained by the public interest law firm, Judicial Watch, shows that Western
governments deliberately
allied with al-Qaeda and other Islamist extremist groups to topple Syrian
dictator Bashir al-Assad.
According to
investigative reporter Nafeez Ahmed in Medium, the leaked document reveals that
in coordination with the Gulf states and Turkey, the West intentionally sponsored
violent Islamist groups to destabilize Assad, despite anticipating that doing
so could lead to the emergence of an ‘Islamic State’ in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
So, apparently the
Pentagon foresaw the likely rise of the “Islamic State” as a direct consequence
of the strategy, but described this outcome as a strategic opportunity to
“isolate the Syrian regime”.
And, now that ISIS
is running around the middle east, cutting people's heads of in 1080p quality
and Hollywood-quality (perhaps literally) video, the US has a credible
justification to sell billions worth of modern, sophisticated weapons in the
region in order to "modernize" and "replenish" the weapons
of such US allies as Saudi Arabia, Israel and Iraq. And that the US
military-industrial complex is a winner every time war breaks out anywhere in
the world (usually with the assistance of the CIA) is clear to everyone by now.
The revelations
contradict the official line of Western government on their policies in Syria, and
raise disturbing questions about secret Western support for violent extremists
abroad, while using the burgeoning threat of terror to justify excessive mass
surveillance and crackdowns on civil liberties at home.
The newly
declassified DIA document
from 2012 confirms that the main component of the anti-Assad rebel forces by
this time comprised Islamist insurgents affiliated to groups that would lead to
the emergence of ISIS. Despite this, these
groups were to continue receiving support from Western militaries and their
regional allies.
Noting that “the Salafist [sic], the
Muslim Brotherhood, and AQI [al-Qaeda in Iraq] are the major forces driving the
insurgency in Syria,” the document states that “the West, Gulf countries, and
Turkey support the opposition,” while Russia, China and Iran “support the
[Assad] regime.”
The 7-page DIA
document states that al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), the precursor to the ‘Islamic
State in Iraq,’ (ISI) which
became the ‘Islamic State in Iraq
and Syria,’
“supported the Syrian opposition from the beginning, both ideologically and
through the media.”
In a section
titled ‘The Future Assumptions of the Crisis,’ the DIA report predicts that while Assad’s
regime will survive, retaining control over Syrian territory, the crisis will
continue to escalate “into proxy war.”
Russian President
Vladimir Putin has warned that any attempts to overthrow the government in Syria could lead to a failed state like Iraq or Libya. Speaking on the US network CBS,
Putin said that "Syrians and only Syrians" should be able to decide
the fate of their country.
"There's no other solution to the
Syrian crisis other than strengthening the effective government structures and
rendering them help in fighting terrorism, but at the same time urging them to
engage in positive dialogue with the rational opposition and conduct
reform," Putin said.
There was no consensus between Western
countries and Russia
on how to proceed with the Syrian conflict and "there's certainly a debate
on which enemy to fight first".
President Putin is
quite right. Only a country has to determine who and how their country should be governed not
an outside force. That's the roots and foundation of democracy. European Union/NATO and U.S. should learn from the invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan
and Libya.
That's the main reason for the creation of ISIS,
ISIL, etc; which resulted in the current refugee crisis. With creation of this
refugee crisis, terrorism has been exported world-wide. Terrorism shall
escalate when we lest expected it. Let's keep our fingers crossed with
vigilance.
If the government
does collapse in Syria, it does look as though you have a Libya type fail state
situation with Isis in much more control, as we have seen in the midst whenever
the west liberats a country, they always just leave it in ruins and let
extremists quietly build up again take over then the west has to go bomb it all
over again, look at Afghanistan and don't see any evidence of this changing,
Sadly I don't think fixing any of these countries after war's is an aim.
It absolutely
could lead to a failed state, as the overthrow of two dictators in the region
(namely Saddam and Gaddafi) has demonstrably shown. This isn't just
"Russian propaganda"; the proof is right there to see. I don't think
anyone in the West is going to defend Assad as a good man, but he governs well
in an area that is prone to various chaotic uprisings. The US is simply
upset that it wasn't able to get a "two birds with one stone" with
the elimination of the Assad regime and the dismantling of ISIS/ISIL, and they
are refusing to change their tone because it would look like an admission of
complicity or ineptitude.
Russia is doing the same as what US and other western allies have been doing
and now that the table is turning everyone of the western politicians are
talking. This conflict wouldn't have reach here if they allow Assad to be part
of the national reconciliation they have tried to negotiate with the help of
different UN envoys and it failed always because and they back and support does
opposition whom they want to replace Assad for their political interest. If at Russia and China
didn't veto the intervention plan they wanted some years ago, the West would have
destroyed Syria with bombs
and just like what they did to Libya
and Iraq.
This is not a civil war but a war between the super countries all fighting for
their interest in Syria
and forget about the citizen who are suffering. It is really sad to see
children dieing of a crime they never commit. It is really sad to see houses
and properties of people which they struggle for years been destroy in one day.
Terrorists have been taking advantage of the war to terrorise the citizens.
Syrian opposition and Syrian government must use the negotiating table to solve
this crisis. Is that the only solution? And after that the world can unite to eradicate
terrorism before this cancer spreads more./.
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The Peace of Westphalia was a series of treaties among the European states that ended the Thirty Years’ War, with its enormous carnage, and established the principle of national sovereignty—that a nation is sovereign over its population.
This meant that a Protestant nation, for example, had no right to make war against a Catholic nation merely because the Protestant nation very much wanted the citizens of the Catholic nation to become Protestants.
Our intervention flouted the Peace of Westphalia, though again I don’t recall the Peace having been mentioned.
which the President wants to bomb as punishment for the Syrian military’s use of poison gas against civilians believed to support the rebels in the civil war that has been raging for more than two years and that has caused some 100,000 deaths and a flood of refugees.
Syria is a dictatorship, but it is not a threat to the United States.
Rather odd to not talk about how action without the UN is illegal, or that you seem to condone funding the borderline genocidal military
I have to say in the Syria debate I have only heard mention of International Law rather than the Peace
I am assuming that you are concentrating on interests rather than the legality of an action because there appear to be so many historical precedents that someone can always pick the one which can justify what they want to do.
The red line was crossed in Syria, but few people have yet to talk about the most likely and only real solution which is to break the nation into two parts.
A change in ruling factions is also not a viable solution in that it would probably unleash a wave of killings, and reprisals.
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