Time Op-Ed : George W. Bush's America Is Isis' Father, And Saudi Arabia Is It's Mother
http://time.com/4119918/terrors-lineage
In every myth, the monster has a father and a mother. And so it is with ISIS: its father is George W. Bush’s America, and its mother is Saudi Arabia. The former provided it with pretext in the disastrous invasion of Iraq. This invasion was seen as a rape of the Arab world. It was based on a lie—the false link between Sept. 11 and Saddam Hussein—and it destroyed the West’s moral superiority.
As for ISIS’s mother, this strange theocracy is simultaneously allied with the West through the Saudi royal family and opposed to the West by an ideology that is the product of a vicious clergy. Saudi Arabia remains the ideological factory for jihadism with an industry of theologians it supports financially. They propagate their vision through books and TV channels throughout the Arab world and far beyond. Saudi Arabia is both a victim and a source of terrorist ideas.
Daoud edits the Algerian daily Le Quotidien d’Oran and is the author of the novel The Meursault Investigation
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I think Americans should begin to delve deeper into the genesis of ISIS, so we can think about what will come after ISIS is gone. Unless the Sunni-Shia rift is addressed politically somehow, the only chance the US has of stabilizing the region is a huge American occupying force, which would then most likely perpetuate anti-American and anti-western sentiment in the region. Just blowing away ISIS will not solve the root issues.
We can't kill our way out of this situation. There was a program on CNN the other night called, ''Blindsided, how ISIS shook the world''...Very interesting, although I didn't agree with it 100 percent it gave some compelling information about ISIS, their formation, etc etc.
America has to stop empowering thugs, maniacs and religious fanatics. America claims a lot of principles that we don't live up to. Ok, realpolitick. But then don't complain when something goes "wrong".
the only chance the US has of stabilizing the region is a huge American occupying force
And think of the number of troops it would take to try to force any kind of "peace" (basically stop them from killing each other for now). 250,000? More? We'd have to start the draft back up and force some people to "volunteer" for the Army like in Vietnam. And in the end it would, as you say just "perpetuate anti-American and anti-western sentiment in the region". We'd be like the Soviet Union occupying Afghanistan.