http://www.alternet.org/world/why-showdown-islamic-extremists-war-pentagon-was-hoping
As the U.S. escalates its bombing campaign against ISIS (or IS or ISIL),
U.S. officials seem to have found an enemy we can all love to hate and
fear. ISIS beheads hostages, conducts brutal ethnic cleansing and has
links to Al-Qaeda. DC power players have eagerly embraced a small war
made to order to restore America's wounded military pride after the
first Iraq debacle.
After initially helping to drive out Iraqi government death squads, ISIS
has outlived its purpose to Sunni Arab tribal leaders in northern and
western Iraq. Most Sunni Iraqis don't want to be part of a
fundamentalist Islamic state like Saudi Arabia, where 19 people were beheaded in August for offenses ranging from witchcraft to drug possession. Most Iraqi Sunnis just
want civil and political rights in their own country, Iraq. But they
justifiably fear the return of Shiite death squads more than they fear
ISIS.
No comments:
Post a Comment