A Must Read article: How America Made ISIS: Their Videos and Ours, Their “Caliphate” and Ours by Tom Engelhardt, September 2, 2014 ... It was, to use a word that George W. Bush let slip only once, something like a crusade, something close to a religious war, if not against Islam itself -- American officials piously and repeatedly made that clear -- then against the idea of a Muslim enemy, as well as against al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and later Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. In each case, Washington mustered a coalition of the willing, ranging from Arab and South or Central Asian states to European ones, sent in air power followed twice by full-scale invasions and occupations, mustered local politicians of our choice in major “nation-building” operations amid much self-promotional talk about democracy, and built up vast new military and security apparatuses, supplying them with billions of dollars in training and arms. ... tomdispatch/post/175888/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_the_escalation_follies/#more
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 19:41:34 +0000
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