[Peace-discuss] One of the few honest accounts of the war against jihadism

[David Green]

http://thisishell.net/shows/837/#Dirik
Dilar Dirik: “There is a new kind of open society being created, but that’s something people don’t want to see, even leftists – people who should be in solidarity with what is happening in Rojava – criticize it for not being Marxist enough, anarchist enough, feminist enough – the truth is these people are creating a new life there. They are establishing a revolution there. It should be everyone’s task to support this.”
One hour audiofilehttps://soundcloud.com/this-is-hell/837dilardirik 


     On Friday, June 19, 2015 10:18 AM, C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
   
 

 <http://pando.com/2015/06/17/the-war-nerd-a-glorious-victory-for-once/>
It’s hardly surprising that this is one of the rare honest accounts of the current war against Islamic State - because jihadism is a creation of a US Democratic administration, forty years ago. 
The Carter administration gathered up the most fanatic Islamicists it could find, armed them in the most expensive CIA operation to date, and sent them into Afghanistan (before the Soviet invasion) as part of its policy to prevent Eurasian economic integration, because “We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war,” as President Carter’s National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, put it. 
(See Brzezinski’s 1998 interview <http://www.american-buddha.com/lit.brzezinskiinterviewlenouvel.htm> and his 1997 book “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives.")
9-11 was a ‘blowback’ of that policy, 20 years later, by jihadists outraged that the Clinton administration (1) killed a half million children in Iraq (and declared it “worth it”); (2) invested Saudi Arabia with US troops; and (3) supported Israeli oppression of the Palestinians.  
As Patrick Cockburn, the best English-language reporter in the area, points out (in "The Rise of Islamic State: ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution”) present-day jihadism is sponsored by the US-backed ‘Sunni Alliance” (Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the GCC) - a monster created by American Drs. Frankenstein. 
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[Gary Brecher’s article ("A Glorious Victory, For Once!”) describes the activities of the YPG/J. The YPG are the People's Protection Units (Syrian Kurdish militia), and the YPJ are the Women's Protection Units (the woman's division of the Syrian Kurdish militia).]
The People's Protection Units (Kurdish: Yekîneyên Parastina Gel), commonly known as the YPG, is the armed wing of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Rojava, Syria. The group is one of the armed Kurdish forces in Syria, which had initially taken a defensive position in the Syrian Civil War, fighting against any group that tries to take control of the Kurdish areas. Later it started to make advances into territories controlled by ISIS and inhabited mostly by Sunni Muslims, such as the border town of Tell Abyad in June 2015.
The group was founded by the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) after the 2004 al-Qamishli riots. Following the signing of the 2012 Arbil Agreement by PYD and the Kurdish National Council (KNC), the YPG came under the nominal command of the Kurdish Supreme Committee [but remain effectively independent, militarily and politically].
The YPG is composed of men and women from communities across the Kurdish region (Rojava) of Syria. The YPG considers itself a democratic people's army and conducts internal elections as a method of appointing officers. Though predominantly Kurdish, the group has attracted increasing numbers of Arabs, including fighters defecting from the mainstream opposition as well as locals from mixed or Arab villages in YPG-controlled territory who see the group as the best guarantor of regional security. A number of non-Kurdish Christians also fight in YPG ranks, and the militia has close ties to the Assyrian/Syriac Sutoro and Syriac Military Council. They are known for their large number of women fighters.
In late July 2012, the People's Protection Units pushed out government security forces from the city of Kobanî (ʿAyn al-ʿArab) and took over Amuda and Afrin, Syria. As of December 2012, the YPG consisted of eight brigades. Some of these brigades operate in Afrin, al-Qamishli, Kobanî and Ras al-Ayn.
Conflict has grown between the YPG and Islamists after they expelled a group of jihadists from Ras al-Ayn.
In 2014, the YPG collaborated with the Free Syrian Army in order to fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Ar-Raqqah Governorate. The YPG has also formed an operations room with multiple FSA factions called Euphrates Volcano. In February 2015, the YPG signed a judicial agreement with the Levant Front in Aleppo. [en.wikipedia.org]
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