Pepe Escobar: Daesh, KLA, Creature Of The West.
Pepe Escobar: Daesh, Creature Of The West
Source: Op-Ed by Pepe Escobar
James Shea, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Emerging Threats at NATO – now that’s a lovely title – recently gave a talk at a private club in London on the Islamic State/Daesh. Shea, as many will remember, made his name as NATO’s spokesman during the NATO war on Yugoslavia in 1999.
After his talk Shea engaged in a debate with a source I very much treasure. The source later gave me the lowdown.
According to Saudi intelligence, Daesh was invented by the US government – in Camp Bacca, near the Kuwait border, as many will remember — to essentially finish off the Shiite-majority Nouri al-Maliki government in Baghdad.
It didn’t happen this way, of course. Then, years later, in the summer of 2014, Daesh routed the Iraqi Army on its way to conquer Mosul. The Iraqi Army fled. Daesh operatives then annexed ultra-modern weapons that took US instructors from six to twelve months to train the Iraqis in and…surprise! Daesh incorporated the weapons in their arsenals in 24 hours.
In the end, Shea frankly admitted to the source that Gen David Petraeus, conductor of the much-lauded 2007 surge, had trained these Sunnis now part of Daesh in Anbar province in Iraq.
Saudi intelligence still maintains that these Iraqi Sunnis were not US-trained – as Shea confirmed – because the Shiites in power in Baghdad didn’t allow it. Not true. The fact is the Daesh core – most of them former commanders and soldiers in Saddam Hussein’s army — is indeed a US-trained militia.
True to form, at the end of the debate, Shea went on to blame Russia for absolutely everything that’s happening today – including Daesh terror.
Mr. Sykes and Monsieur Picot, you’re dead
Now let’s go back to the proclamation of the Daesh Caliphate in June 29, 2014. That was choreographed as a symbolic abolition of the Sykes-Picot border that split the Middle East a century ago. At the same time, abandoning the option of a military push to take Baghdad, Daesh chose to regionalize and internationalize the fight, creating their own transnational state and denouncing regional states as “impostors”. All that coupled with the amp up of any chaos strategy capable of horrifying Western public opinion.
For large swathes of a Sunni Arab audience, this was powerful stuff. Daesh was proclaiming themselves, in a warped manner, as the sole real heir of the different Arab Springs; the only totally autonomous regional movement, depending exclusively on its own local base, made up of numerous Bedouin tribes.
But how did we get here?
Let’s go back once again – now to Iraq in the 1990s, during the Clinton era. The strategic logic at the time spelled out an instrumentalization of UN resolutions — with Washington de facto controlling Iraq’s oil, manipulating the price as a means of pressure over trade competitors much more dependent on Iraqi oil such as China, Japan and selected European nations.
9/11 turned this state of affairs upside down – leading to the 2003 neocon ideological stupidity and subsequent amateurism managing an occupation in total ignorance of history and the ultra-complex dynamics between the Iraqi state and society. Saddam Hussein was the de facto last avatar of a political arrangement invented by imperial Britain in 1920. With the invasion and occupation, the Iraq state collapsed. And the Cheney regime had no clue what to do with it.
There was no Sunni alternative. So Plan B, under major pressure by Shiites and Kurds, was to give voice to the majority. The problem is political parties ended up being religious and ethnic parties. The partition of power, Lebanese-style — Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds – turned out to be a dysfunctional nightmare.
Between 2005 and 2008, this American attempt to rebuild the Iraqi state yielded a horrendous confessional civil war between Sunnis and Shiites. The Sunnis lost. And that largely explains the subsequent success of Daesh in creating a “Sunniland”.
The US occupation-Arab Spring love affair
Now let’s turn to the Syrian version of the Arab Spring in February/March 2011. Initial protests against Assad’s iron rule were peaceful – multi-communitarian and multi-confessional. But soon anti-Alawite rancor started to radicalize a significant part of the Sunni majority.
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Pepe_Escobar%3A_Daesh%2C_Creature_Of_The_West/57527/0/38/38/Y/M.html
$10 Trillion Missing from Pentagon and No One — Not Even the DoD — Knows Where It Is
Top Beiträge & Seiten
- Eric T. Olson, Ex-Kommandeur des US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) in der Ukraine festgenommen
- Die Peinlichkeit, der Lügen, der Pharma Referentin: Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim
- Viren Kriegsführung Richard Hatchett, Avril Haines, Tom Inglesby, Donald Rumsfeld von "Anthrax, Ebola bis Corona"
- Gangster Imperium BMI: Horst Seehofer, Hanna Müller, Markus Kerber, RKI und McKinsey
- Die Nazi Schwadronen der Angela Merkel und des Versagers Frank Walter Steinmeier in der Ukraine
- Sibel Edmonds und die US und NATO Verbrecher Welt
- Klaus Schwab, uralt Nazi Familie und die Welt Herrschaft erneut mit Angela Merkel
- NATO und die Drogen Mafia von Afghanistan, Tetova in Mazedonien, über den Kosovo und Albanien
- PCR Test, der totale Unfug, Impfstoffe und gut geschmiert: Christian Dorsten
- Die Deutsche Entwicklungshilfe, finanziert Deutschen Millionären Grosswild Jagd wie Rainer Schorr und Wilfried Pabst
Blogroll
- Aaron Swartz
- assassination of gaddafi
- »Lumpen-Intelligenzija« der Aufbau Helfer
- Blackrock
- Blog: Dr. Steffen Rabe
- BLOOD FOR OIL, DRUGS FOR ARMS
- Danisch H. blog
- Europapolitik blog
- FAS
- Greta, fryday for future, Finkbeiner,
- Gutmenschen
- Institute for European Politics: Kosovo security and intelligence report, 9 January 2007
- jjanke Briefe
- John Pilger
- Krysmanski
- LEAP – GEAP
- Lobby Mafia Deutschland
- Mafia Info Blog
- Mein Partei Buch
- Mein Zeit Geist
- Multipolar Medien
- Netzfrauen
- Putin Real
- Qwant Such Maschine
- Radio Utopie
- RKI; Drosten, Landt Betrug
- Stop NATO
- US Politik
- VW – SPD und der Drogen Handel
- wikileaks bnd
- zeitgeist-online.de/
Blogs International
- Access Info Europe
- AIPAC und die Israel Mafia
- Barth Engelbart
- Bill Warner
- Bitchute – youtube
- Blacklistednews
- Blauer Bote
- Blutrache Regeln der Pashtunen
- Chaos Computer Club
- CIA – NSA Bankrott Erklärung
- clinton, drugs, Bin Laden, Money laundering
- Corbett Report
- Cryptome
- Dollar Blüten des CIA
- eu-infothek
- Friederike Beck
- Gaby Weber
- Groklaw Investigativ Medien
- highcrimes
- Hinter der Fichte blog
- https://swprs.org/
- ICIJ Investigative Journists
- Info war
- Infosperber
- Jasmin Revolution
- le-Bohemien
- Leak: stollmeyer.eu/
- Multipolar Medien
- Nachdenk Seiten
- NEWEUROPA
- NSA Archiv
- NSNBC news
- professorsblogg – Sweden
- Rene Benko
- Robert Parry
- Rollingstone
- Ron Paul
- Rubikon News
- Süd Amerika News
- Secret wars
- Sibel Edmonds
- strategische-studien
- Strategoc Culture Foundation
- voltairenet
- weltpolitik
- Wikileaks und die NATO Verbrechen
- William Engdahl
- World News
- WWF Wilfried Huismann
Grusel Kabinett
- Amadeu Antonio Stiftung
- AVAAZ – Georg Soros Betrug
- Bell Pottinger – Lobbyisten Mafia
- Benjamin Netanyahu
- Bill Gates
- Binaldi Yildirim
- Blackrock EZB
- Corona Pentagon, Bio Waffen Forschung
- Drogen- und Geldwäsche Boss: Jo Biden
- FES Mafia: Christoph Zöbel
- Frank – Walter Steinmeier Mafia
- Friedbert Pflüger
- Georg Soros und seine Betrugs Maschinerie
- Greenspan
- HRW
- Jeffrey Feltman
- Klaus Kleber, Stefan Kornelius, Joffe
- MAD – Rosenberg
- Maidan Todesschwadronen
- Pentagon, Bill Gates Pläne
- Recep Erdogan
- Recep Erdogan – Yassin Kadi
- Richard Perle
- Rubikon "Geheimdienste"
- Susanne Baer
- Taxi Fahrer Joschka Fischer
- Thomas Barnett
- Ulla Schmidt (SPD)
- US Botschafter Frank Wisner
- US Military Killer
- US Politik
- Wikileaks und die NATO Verbrechen
- Wolfgang Ischinger, Kriegs Global Mafia: MSC
- WWF Worldlife Fund Mafia
Neueste Kommentare