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Washington Opened The Gates Of Hell In Iraq: Now Come The Furies
Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog,
The late, great critic of the American Imperium, Chalmers Johnson, popularized the salient concept of “blowback”. That is, the notion that if you bomb, drone, invade, desecrate and slaughter - collaterally or otherwise - a people and their lands, they might find ways to return the favor.
But even Johnson could not have imagined the kind of blowback coming ferociously Washington’s way now. Namely, the mayhem being visited on much of Iraq by American tanks, armored personnel carriers, heavy artillery, anti-aircraft batteries and other advanced weaponry that has fallen into the hands of the very jihadist radicals that have been the ostensible target of Washington’s entire multi-trillion “war on terrorism”.
No question about it. The ISIS terrorists are winning against the hapless Iraqi military and even the formidable Kurdish peshmerga fighters - using some of the most lethal arms that the US military-industrial complex could concoct.
Yes, that wasn’t supposed to happen. During the bloody years after George W. Bush declared “mission accomplished” the Iraqi’s were ostensibly provided the arms and training to provide for their own defense. The American “occupation”, therefore, was really not all that. Instead, it was actually an exercise in “nation-building” that would bequeath to the people Washington had “liberated” a self-governing democracy equipped with the means to insure internal order and external security. Washington politicians—including President Obama—gave endless speeches about that. You can look them up!
Except…except….Iraq was never a nation. At least the Ottoman’s knew that you don’t put Shiite’s, Sunni and Kurds in the same parliament or police force, and most certainly not the same army!
By contrast, it was the British and French foreign offices which in 1916 drew the Sykes-Picot boundaries and created the historical illusion that a nation called Iraq actually existed. And it was their successors in the west which installed a series of corrupt and brutal rulers, including kings, generals and Saddam Hussein himself, who maintained an always tentative and frequently blood-soaked semblance of governance within these artificial borders.
Then came the neo-cons who for no discernible reason of national security could not leave well enough alone. By god, they were going to have regime change, a stable supplier of 6 million barrels of oil per day, and a stalwart ally armed to the teeth on the very doorstep of the Axis-Of-Evil; that is, the Iranian Shiite theocracy which happened to be religious kin to the single largest block of the Iraqi population.
What these fools did was to open the gates of hell. The end result of Washington’s 20-year campaign to liberate Iraq, beginning with the first gulf war and followed by the devastating trade sanctions of the 1990s and the brutal desecrations of Bush II’s “shock and awe” and all the military mayhem which followed, was to aggravate, widen and mobilize all of the latent ethnic and religious conflicts and enmities that had been bottled up for decades inside the Sykes-Picot illusion.
Now the furies have come. Ironically, the bloodthirsty ISIS is comprised of fighters who were first enabled by the misbegotten Bush maneuver known as the “surge”; then armed and trained by the CIA for the campaign against Assad; and now brandish the best weapons that any ramshackle jihadist group ever had.
And yet America’s “peace” President is sending the bombers back in because there is a “humanitarian crisis” involving a religious sect no American has ever heard of, stranded on a mountain top that has nothing to do with the security and safety of the citizens of Lincoln NE and Spokane WA.
Has not the American war machine turned the entirety of Mesopotamia and the Levant into a humanitarian crisis—of which this is only a tiny manifestation? Isn’t it time to at least stop fueling the blowback?
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ho finances ISIS? Reports are that they have $20 billion's worth of assets. This cannot poosibly be spoils. Nobody gets so big so fast without some major money backing. Mainstream media have never asked this question.
But even Johnson could not have imagined the kind of blowback coming ferociously Washington’s way now.
Johnson must not have so great! The Blow-back is not just an Iraq blow-back, but a Muslim blow-back. Our CIA or POTUS backs the Muslims and then they come head hunting.
Not that hard to figure out if you study Islam. Johnson, like so many in academia, do not conside that Islam does NOT play by the civilized (?) world rules. Islam not just a religion, it is a way a life. Leave Islam out of the equation and your predictions are all fucked up!
What does this mean "now come furies"? Does that mean the omega males that fuck each other while wearing bunny costumes?
to paraphrase Ron Paul:
"I FUCKING TOLD YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN!"
ERGO...a de-Americanized world would undoubtedly stop American aggression throughout the entire world. Frankly,
Americans are beyond the 'blowback' stage in life and will
implode from within via the petro-dollar and rigged markets
IMHO. People throughout the world refer to the USA as 'the great satan for a reason, folks
Things have deteriorated to the point that Americans are using every opportunity to take their eyes off what is happening in Iraq, the country has become a train wreck and is rapidly morphing into a failed State. It is often unwise to take your eyes off a problem for long because when you look back you might find that things have gone horribly wrong, this is the case in Iraq and Syria.
The lyrics from a song "slip sliding away" come to mind as a way to describe the massive investment made in Iraq by America. Recently a group called ISIS shocked much of the world by swiftly capturing Mosul in an offensive that allowed the group to take control of major parts of northern and western Iraq. On June 29, 2014 the Islamist militants declared an Islamic "caliphate" in an area straddling Iraq and Syria. More on this subject in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/08/islamic-state-of-iraq-and-levant....
we can't let them have the oil wealth. if you do that, it is pretty much a given the ISIL guys will end up with a Paki nuke much sooner than anyone imagines.
after that, game over man, who fucking put her in charge.
"Then came the neo-cons who for no discernible reason of national security could not leave well enough alone."
Right, it's the neo-cons that did it. King Obama doesn't have the XO power over his army to close gitmo much less pull out of a theoretical modern day Persia - the land of imaginary borders.I would like to meet a neo-cons one day. See what they have to say against the nationalist socialists of the ussa (NAZI for the ignorant) who seem to be running things now and complaining about what these orcs/goblins/balrocs did to them in the 90s.
America is nothing but Pirate Chieftain
CNN is nothing but C-I-A News Network
http://www.catholic.org/news/international/middle_east/story.php?id=56481
WARNING GRAPHIC PHOTOS (RAW) - ISIS begins killing Christians in Mosul, CHILDREN BEHEADEDNo country has ever been given democracy and survived it is forged through the struggle against those who reign supreme. Then you wonder why this policy fails over and over again.
If the Iraqi people want democracy it is for them to fight for it and die trying not any other nation. THIS THE ONLY REASON THAT THROUGH ALL THE TURMOIL ACTUALLY WORKS IN ACHIEVING THE END STABILITY.
US & the neo cons were only ever after the oil and to use Iraq in countering Iran. WRONG REASON FOR STABILITY!
THen people bitch and complain because the world is becoming a cesspit of violence and atrocity!
ISIS Primer 101 for you
https://news.vice.com/video/the-islamic-state-part-1
"...if you bomb, drone, invade, desecrate and slaughter - collaterally or otherwise - a people and their lands, they might find ways to return the favor. ..."
Take the word "bomb" out of the above sentence and you could pair this with ISIS or Russia - your choice. Can be both. China if you'd prefer with their recent moves claiming offshore belonging to other countries.
I read the Americans "bombed" the Iraqi refugees with food and supplies last night to help these people who were displaced by the slaughtering ISIS animals - wonder if that's true.
Just saying. Hate if it makes you feel better.
The masters of the universe never consider blowback. Either they are stupid, dont care or its part of the overall shaping of the battlefield.
Hindsight is always 20/20.
If the US had cluster bombed/carpet bombed the isis hoard when they first entered Iraq they wouldn't have all the weapons they're using now on civilians. They'd be dead.
These f-ers don't understand "live and let live": you just have to keep killing them in large numbers until they decide the don't want to fight anymore.
This headline isn't nearly as ominous when you read it as
"Washington Opened The Gates Of Hell In Iraq: Now Come The Furries"
BUSH GAVE iraq AN OPPORTUNITY..... obama and brennan SQUANDERED IT....
If there is money to be made then by god we'll find those that need liberation (even if we have to invent and equip the oppressors first) using 500lb LGBs - and other various and sundry weaponry.
"But even Johnson could not have imagined the kind of blowback coming ferociously Washington’s way now. Namely, the mayhem being visited on much of Iraq by American tanks, armored personnel carriers, heavy artillery, anti-aircraft batteries and other advanced weaponry that has fallen into the hands of the very jihadist radicals that have been the ostensible target of Washington’s entire multi-trillion “war on terror"
is this some kind of sick joke?
this is blowback on the ussa?
this is blowback on iraq.
it will only be blowback on the ussa when it is happening in the ussa.
yeah, this is a sick joke of an article.