My country and its allies have created a monster much more deadly than Mr. Frankenstein
… from Russia Today, Moscow
We need to get the chains on State sponsored terrorism
[ Editor’s Note:
I grew up in the age of the remake movies and early TV Frankenstein
monster days, where the scary creation got loose from the lab one night
to begin his terror campaign on the neighborhood. Here I am now in my
mid-60’s having to deal with the modern political version of this event.
My country and its allies have created a
monster much more scary and deadly than Mr. Frankenstein. Whereas
everybody knew who had let Frank the monster loose, untold millions of
Americans are still clueless to the extent that terrorism has become the
“soup de jour” of regime change and destabilization tools.
Under the manufactured smokescreen that
we were under a terror attack ourselves, we launched one of the biggest
terror campaigns since the Rawandan genocide. And I must say I
underestimated the American people’s ability to eventually figure it out
and seek revenge on the perpetrators here at home.
The
term “finishing school for terrorism” of course caught my attention in
putting this piece up today. It had a cute twist of elitism to it,
similar to how Western leaders, and always the Israelis of course,
consider themselves beyond judgement for their crimes.
While the much of the world was ravaged
by the financial bankster terrorists, who also seemed to enjoy an
unwritten immunity, we watch the US debt walk over a cliff while the
military industrial complex ranked in untold billions, including $40
billion in Afghanistan that cannot be accounted for, not counting the
heroin business.
The Pivot turns into a Divot
The Asia Pivot and the Ukraine disaster
are exposing the fear of the Western financial empire that they cannot
maintain their house of cards black economic hole unless they can
swallow up Eurasian, so a new Frankenstein has been unleashed there who
will end up in our own neighborhoods before it is over.
Iran was one of the rare bright spots
when Obama’s shift, a highly controversial on politically, to put the
Iran bogeyman scam to bed.
There is a big school of thought that the
master plans now calls for calm in the Person Gulf to concentrate our
military offensive power on Russian and China.
But
they do not stand alone. The BRICS success has spawned the Asian
Development Bank with Western countries tripping over themselves to
become founding members. And India and Iran are now joining together in
both a military and economic cooperation to defend against future
Western economic or military attacks.
If anyone deserved to be fired, or much
worse, to total failure of their geopolitical strategy and the victims
in generated, it is the Western leaders who I have long editorialized
that the international crime rings that are really running the show make
sure that good leadership never gets into a position to oppose them.
The coming election season looks like more of the same… Jim W. Dean ]
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– First published … April 01, 2015 -
Some 22,000 foreign fighters from around 100 countries went to Syria and Iraq to join various radical groups, experts have told UN Security Council. The area has turned into a global training ground for extremists.
Syria and Iraq are world’s biggest hotbeds for extremists linked with various offshoots of Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) and similar groups, a report seen by Reuters claims.
“For the thousands of [foreign
fighters] who traveled to the Syrian Arab Republic and Iraq … they live
and work in a veritable ‘international finishing school’ for extremists
as it was in the case in Afghanistan during the 1990s,” the experts
wrote in their report submitted to the UNSC in March.
85 countries have fed cannon fodder terrorists into Syria
Libya shows a particularly worrisome development, as since the start of 2015 it experienced an inflow of foreign fighters, reversing the previous trend of supplying extremists to other countries.
The increasingly globalized nature of Islamist extremism poses a medium-term threat through “plug-and-play social networks for future attack planning – linking diverse foreign fighters from different communities across the globe,” the experts warned.
They added that if Islamic State is defeated by the US-led coalition in Iraq and Syria, an unintended consequence could be a scattering of the group’s members across the world.
The danger that Syria would become a hotbed for international terrorism was hard to overlook since the early days of the armed conflict there. The government of President Bashar Assad was ringing the bell saying foreign fighters were increasingly present among the rebel forces for years and accusing its neighbors like Turkey of turning a blind eye on the traffic of extremists across the border.
The Western public realized the threat only after the IS launched, from its Syrian stronghold, a lightning campaign and took over a large part of Iraq. The self-proclaimed caliphate’s military victories were mirrored by an aggressive recruiting campaign that lured hundreds of Europeans and Americans into their ranks.
Those fighters are now considered a serious threat, as they are expected to return to their home countries with their guerrilla warfare experience, contacts among extremists and a willingness to launch attacks on home soil.
“We have to deal with the threat
of foreign fighters planning attacks against our people,” British Prime
Minister David Cameron declared last year as he was announcing that his
government would be able to ban suspected British jihadists from
returning to UK.
“The root cause of the challenge
we face is the extremist narrative. So we must confront this extremism
in all its forms. We must ban extremist preachers from our countries. We
must root out extremism from our schools, universities and prisons,” he
added.
Meanwhile in the Middle East, Washington’s stated solution to the
rise of extremists is a bombing campaign, which is supposed to help
Iraqi troops take back the land taken from them by the IS. At the same
time the US is training “moderate rebels” from Syria in a bid to make
them capable to fight against the extremists and the Syrian government
alike.The strategy is flawed as it ignores the root of the problem, believes Lawrence Freeman from Executive Intelligence Review Magazine.
“We have to expose those who are
behind the funding and coordination and the ideology of ISIL and
Al-Qaeda,” he told RT. “There are indications continually that the
Wahabi-Salafist ideology which is supported by the Saudi kingdom is
being nurtured in a key component of ISIL and Al-Qaeda, and also Boko
Haram [in Nigeria].”
The other key component would be economic development, which would
give the people an alternative to joining the extremists, Lawrence
added.http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/04/28/syria-iraq-turned-into-international-finishing-school-for-extremists/
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