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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA Game Worth the Candle: Terror and the Agenda of our Elites
People see the carnage in Paris, and cry, When will this end? The hard answer is that it is not going to end, not any time soon. We are living through the horrific consequences of decisions and actions taken long ago, as well as those of being taken right now. The currents and movements set in motion by these actions cannot be quelled in an instant not by wishing, not by hashtags of solidarity or light shows on iconic buildings and certainly not by more bombing, destruction, repression and lies, which are the main drivers of our present-day hell.
There will be no end to rampant terrorism soon because our leaders are not really interested in quelling terrorism. This is simply not a priority for them. For example, in the past 12 years they have utterly destroyed three largely secular governments (Iraq, Libya and Syria) and turned them into vast spawning grounds for violent sectarianism. They did this despite reports from their own intelligence services and military analysts telling them that the spread of violent extremism would almost certainly be the outcome of their interventions. But for our leaders both the elected ones and the elites they serve their geopolitical and macroeconomic agendas outweighed any concerns over these consequences. Put simply, to them, the game was worth the candle. They would press ahead with their agenda, knowing that it would exacerbate extremism and terrorism, but doubtless hoping that these consequences could be contained or better yet, confined to nations seen as rivals to that agenda, or to remote places and peoples of no worth to our great and good.
Our leaders are not opposed to terrorism, neither as a concept nor as a practical tool. Over the past several decades, our leaders and their allies and puppets around the world have at times openly supported terrorist violence when it suited their aims. The prime example is in Afghanistan, where Jimmy Carter and his Saudi allies began arming and funding violent jihadis BEFORE the Soviet incursion there. In fact, as Carters own foreign policy guru, Zbigniew Brzezinski, has openly stated, the United States began supporting Islamist terrorism in Afghanistan precisely in order to draw the Soviet Union into the country. Despite fierce internal opposition in the Kremlin, the Soviets finally took the bait, and sent in troops to save the secular government it was backing from the fundamentalist rebellion.
Ronald Reagan continued and expanded this policy. The same type of men now in charge of ISIS and al Qaeda were welcomed to the Oval Office and praised by Reagan as the moral equivalent of our founding fathers. They were given arms, money and training in terrorist tactics by our military and intelligence services. They were given textbooks prepared, financed and distributed by the US government to indoctrinate schoolchildren in violent jihad. The creation of this worldwide network of Islamic extremists was aimed at weakening the Soviet Union. This was the overriding geopolitical concern of the time. Any other consequences that might flow from this policy creating a global infrastructure of sectarian extremism, seeding a radical minority with arms, funds and innumerable contacts and connections with state were considered unimportant. But we are now living with those consequences.
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A Game Worth the Candle: Terror and the Agenda of our Elites (Original Post)
MattSh
Nov 2015
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Catherina
(35,568 posts)1. Excellent article. Thank you for posting it n/t
Yallow
(1,926 posts)2. There's No Profit In Peace
Just ask Mr. Zorg.
http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Emanuel_Zorg
tblue37
(65,528 posts)3. K&R. nt
burrowowl
(17,655 posts)4. K&R!!!!!!
Right on!
enough
(13,270 posts)5. k&r (nt)
FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)6. Considering the fact that every major group
that risen in prominence has done so because we arm, equipped and financed them. So there's that. Imagine if Russia had armed AlQ and IS...