'Short-Lived' Islamic State Serves America's Purpose (L'Orient Le Jour, Lebanon)
"The …
mission of the Islamic State - which will disappear from the map, let's not
doubt it for a moment - is to push for the creation of a Sunni entity. Because
they are killing one another, we treat them as separate, we would say, from
humanity. We are already saying it. Daech today allows
us to move on to the heart of the road map: Iraq divided into three - or four or
even five parts, and Syria partitioned, also on the same basis. This horrible,
short-lived Islamic State, which we have allowed to set itself up and which has
been financed from the beginning by the Gulf states -
steadfast friends of the Americans - is decidedly quite useful."
Militiamen drunk with vengeance turn up at a mosque and
shoot into the crowd. Yesterday, it was Shiite militiamen who shot the faithful
assembled for Friday prayers at a Sunni mosque. It could have been the other
way round, as has also happened.
Sectarian fury in Iraq was sparked by the Americans in 2003,
when they destroyed every foundation of the Iraqi state in the name of eradicating
the Baath Party and the supporters of Saddam Hussein. The decision to disband the Iraqi army was an act of unprecedented
gravity. Some American analysts admit it today, even if they assert that it
wasn't premeditated. Even if one tends to blame the thoughtlessness of American
proconsul Paul Bremer, who liked to listen to the CIA's purely fabricated
advice, for example from people like Ahmed
Chalabi,
the decisions taken weren't casting errors. The neoconservatives in power at
the time clearly stated their objective of destroying Iraq with as much force
as could be brought to bear.
All measures taken, even if they were signed off by a
cartoonish cowboy in big boots, were directed toward achieving that goal. This
has to be repeated, even if we pretend to have discovered that the Islamic
State - or Daech, poses an unprecedented threat
combining "ideology and military sophistication," to quote the
formulation taken up by U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel
[watch below]. "This is beyond anything we've seen." The old tic of
exaggeration is today disguised by the Islamic State's hideous acts, but we
remain at the same level of discussion that made "Saddam’s army" the
fourth largest military force in the world, and his "weapons of mass
destruction" (WMD) a grave threat capable of
being deployed and activated "within 45 minutes," according to the
liars at the time.
In reality, even if today's White House policy makers seem
less excited than Bush's gang, they are still following the same track which preceded
the American intervention in Iraq, and for the same purpose. The Islamic State,
or Daech, to use the more terrifying Arabic name, hasn't
the slightest chance of lasting, even if today we act astonished by its
"sophistication" and "finances." It does, however,
contribute to the realization of the original objective, which is the complete dismantling
of Iraq.
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Today, Daech provides a justification
for supplying sophisticated weaponry to the Kurdish entity in the north of
Iraq, which is already economically autonomous and manages "its" oil
without reference to Baghdad. With the flood of weapons provided to combat Daech, the Kurds now have all the tools they need to
proclaim themselves independent. The second mission of Daech
- which will disappear from the map, let's not doubt it for a moment - is to
push for the creation of a Sunni entity. Because they are killing one another,
we treat them as separate, we would say, from humanity. We are already saying
it. Daech today allows us to move on to the heart of
the road map: Iraq divided into three - or four or even five parts, and Syria partitioned,
also on the same basis. This horrible, short-lived Islamic State, which we have
allowed to set itself up and which has been financed from the beginning by the
Gulf states - steadfast friends of the Americans - is
decidedly quite useful.
No, Bremer, in deciding to disband Saddam's Iraqi Army, made
no mistake. He did exactly what was expected of him – and we agree, it was not a conspiracy. We finally understand the
permanent message of the propaganda: what the Empire does is never a conspiracy,
but a management decision. It does what it does because it can, and is
accountable to no one for its actions.
