My Message for 9/11 Week
ISIS is the successor to Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn-later
commonly known as Al-Qaeda in Iraq, now renamed (to avoid a Muslim hatred of any mention of an Egyptian god of antiquity; Isis) as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, the head of ISIL was trained and armed by our
government (by the CIA and FBI incredibly) during the Bush and Clinton
administrations to learn counter-insurgency techniques. Why did we train
him? To thwart Russia’s operations in the Caucus’ regions. It was part of
our clandestine, Congressionally approved (the ever-secret “Intelligence
Committee”) attempt to show solidarity with the “freedom fighters” in
Chechnya which is partly in Georgia, part of the Soviet Union at the time,
now ex-USSR. We trained this religious zealot and violent man, he prevailed, so he’s now heading a “terrorist” army undoing all that we “accomplished” in Iraq and even threatens the United States. Good job boys in the various administrations, the CIA and Congress’ Intelligence Committee.
Oh, and in case you think that’s all in the past or a single goof… we had
this evil person under lock and key in Kabul, but he was released in an
Afghani, pseudo-American government sanctioned, prisoner deal to “broker peace talks” with the Taliban as we reduce forces there. Yeah right, peace talks.
Also, it is worth remembering that the “freedom fighters” in Afghanistan
that we armed from 1979 -1989 with surface to air missiles, arms, gave
logistics support to, helped train and recruit Pashtun supporters in
Pakistan - all to thwart Russia’s attempt to destroy Afghanistan’s
“religious terrorists” that the Intelligence Committee and the
Administration and the CIA saw as a terrorist threat to Russia and in the
Caucuses. That’s right; we armed them to destabilize the Soviet Union.
Oh, by the way, these “freedom fighters?” They are the Taliban, who hate us and are still a “terrorist organization” according to the State Dept.
I remember in late 1969 when a pro-Communist leaning King Idris was deposed by a rogue Colonel in the Libyan army, one Muammar Gaddafi. Gee, I wonder if we had anything to do with that? Yup, the CIA armed him and provided all the landing craft so he could attack and capture the capital. A bloody coup that we paid for, for more than 42 years. And you can trace that stupid Intelligence Committee decision all the way to forward in time to Benghazi. Hey, boys and girls in Congress, careful who you throw stones at.
Look, I get it, the Caucuses, the Levant (think Lawrence of Arabia) and the other oil-rich or oil-pipeline regions of the “…stans” (Azerbaijan,
Dagestan, Afghanistan, etc.) and the Arab world are important to American industry and the capitalist economy we promote towards peace. And there is no question in my mind that there are evil people out there that we need to protect against. But it is called the Defense Department, not the war department (since the end of WWII). It is the Central Intelligence Agency, not the “train and arm your future enemies” agency. It is the Administration, not the “play fast and loose with American future enemies.” And, most of all, it is the (oxymoronic) Intelligence Committee in Congress, not the “make secret committee decisions in favor of oil companies, and damn the future consequences” gathering of myopic fools. The cost of the expedient decisions they have traditionally taken will always result in American and innocent lives lost.
Is that the government and future we really want?
