[Peace-discuss] Patrick Cockburn in Tom Dispatch

[Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss]

Pepe Escobar to roughly the same effect:

"...a new beginning in the never-ending Global War on Terror. Now starring Papa Saud's brand new bag - The Caliph and his goons. This is the way Shock and Awe morphs into 'Assad must go' morphs into Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, morphs into The Caliph's Black Britannia goon responding to 'humanitarian' bombing.

"...And why did Islamic State, formerly ISIS, become winners? Because the 'West' regimented, schooled, trained, logistically helped and weaponized most of IS's Takfiri goons..."

"...IS is essentially a revival of 'pure' Wahhabism; not only that IS comes from outside the House of Saud's dominions - in Iraq and the Levant - but tries hard to shatter the monarchy's legitimacy. 

"The House of Saud's counterpunch to the Arab Spring was (and remains) all about destroying or at least isolating the Muslim Brotherhood as an alternative Islamic rule/role model. Yet now comes IS - brimming with religious justification (however warped); military know-how; and an army of true - and well paid - believers.

"...No staged/not staged beheading could possibly top the ultimate blowback: the 'West' nurturing the Beast who would slouch towards Mecca to finally behead the House of Saud..." 

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-01-210814.html


On Aug 21, 2014, at 7:25 PM, Morton K. Brussel via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> 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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