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Showing Original Post only (View all)Scott Ritter: A Tipping Point Toward Chaos [View all]
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/28470-focus-a-tipping-point-toward-chaosThere can be no doubt that what ISIS did was not an accident. Lieutenant Kasasbeh was killed on January 3, 2015 -- nearly a month before ISIS began "negotiating" a prisoner exchange involving the pilot and a would-be female suicide bomber. ISIS knew that by releasing the video of Kasasbeh's murder it would be guaranteeing the execution of its fellow Jihadists at the hands of the Jordanians.
The Islamic State also knew that the resulting public outrage in Jordan, especially amongst the influential al-Kasasbeh tribe, would push Jordan toward accepting a larger role in the fight against ISIS. And it also knows that, in assuming this role, the Jordanian King would be even further aligning himself with the United States and, indirectly, with a competing Shi'a alliance involving Iran, Iraq, Syria and Hezbollah.
Rather than serving as a tipping point for mobilizing public sentiment in the Sunni Arab world against ISIS, it seems that a case can be made that the actions of ISIS seem geared toward achieving the exact opposite reaction -- the mobilization of angry, disenfranchised Sunni Arab youth inside Jordan against the actions of their King, creating the kinds of social rifts ISIS thrives upon. Jordan should proceed cautiously before agreeing to any expansion of its role in the anti-ISIS coalition. To do otherwise, and surrender to an emotional call for revenge, may very well pull the Hashemite Kingdom into the same vortex of fundamentalist sectarianism that has torn Iraq and Syria apart. And this is exactly what ISIS wants.
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More importantly, Scott was a conduit for Ahmed Chalabi's disinformation about Iraq WMDs.
leveymg
Feb 2015
#53
Well, looks like Ritter had his hands in many dirty pies before he "turned."
msanthrope
Feb 2015
#62
Scott Ritter is currently in outpatient sex offender therapy, per his parole.
msanthrope
Feb 2015
#3
Where were the FEDs when one of their own was using the Internet to troll for minors?
Octafish
Feb 2015
#10
Sorry, but when you try to CT away things that are inconvenient to your narrative
Dreamer Tatum
Feb 2015
#26
So, when you don't have anything to rebut with, your M.O. is to attack the messenger.
Octafish
Feb 2015
#29
No, you're a little more artful than that. You attack the messenger's source and rebut with nonsense
Dreamer Tatum
Feb 2015
#32
The review was completed at Sun Feb 8, 2015, 11:05 AM, and the Jury voted 3-4 to LEAVE IT.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Feb 2015
#24
It's a condition of parole, Octa. You admit to your crime. It's also a condition of being in an
msanthrope
Feb 2015
#41
I have no opinion about Ritter's actions, but i do know something about
Jackpine Radical
Feb 2015
#50
If I thought Ritter were actually innocent, I'd be concerned. But I tend to think
msanthrope
Feb 2015
#65
Oh--I am not disagreeing with your second paragraph.....just questioning the efficacy of using
msanthrope
Feb 2015
#69
Maybe. And David Duke may have a really great blueberry pie recipe. Thing is, there's
msanthrope
Feb 2015
#47
You find an ME expert who isn't a sex offender? Can't you see the problem here? nt
msanthrope
Feb 2015
#89
Well, ISIS didn't exist back then but sure, he may be privy to information I would not.
randome
Feb 2015
#48
Jeebus--it's like we're so starving for experts on the Middle East we have to go with the
msanthrope
Feb 2015
#42
Why would you compare Snowden to a convicted sex offender? I'm a bit puzzled by your choice of
msanthrope
Feb 2015
#66