[Peace-discuss] Patrick Coburn in Tom Dispatch

[Morton K. Brussel via Peace-discuss]

One of the most consistently compelling commentaries occurs onTomDispatch.

Tomgram: Patrick Cockburn, How to Ensure a Thriving Caliphate
Think of the new “caliphate” of the Islamic State, formerly the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), as George W. Bush and Dick Cheney's gift to the world (with a helping hand from the Saudis and other financiers of extremism in the Persian Gulf).  How strange that they get so little credit for its rise, for the fact that the outlines of the Middle East, as set up by Europe’s colonial powers in the wake of World War I, are being swept aside in a tide of blood. …


Read the rest at http://www.tomdispatch.com/

—mkb
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