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islamirama
08-09-2016, 03:16 AM
Terrorism As Pretext For Intervention In Middle East – OpEd



What if all the sheikhs of Gulf countries withdraw their petro-dollars from the Western financial institutions; can the fragile financial services based Western economies sustain such a loss of investments? In April this year the Saudi finance minister threatened that the Saudi kingdom would sell up to $750 billion in Treasury securities and other assets if Congress passed a bill that would allow the Saudi government to be held responsible for any role in the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. And $750 billion is only the Saudi investment in the US, if we add its investment in Western Europe, and the investments of UAE, Kuwait and Qatar in the Western economies, the sum total would amount to trillions of dollars of Gulf’s investment in the US and Western Europe.

Notwithstanding, we need to look for comparative advantages and disadvantages here. If the vulnerable economy is their biggest weakness, what are the biggest strengths of the Western powers? The biggest strength of the Western capitalist bloc is its military might. We have to give credit to the Western hawks they did which nobody else in the world had the courage to do: that is, they privatized their defense production industry. And as we know, that privately-owned enterprises are more innovative, efficient and in this particular case, lethal. But having power is one thing, and using that power to achieve certain desirable goals is another.

No wonder then that the first casualty of “war on terror” after Afghanistan had been Iraq; and what did the corporate media tell us about invading Iraq back in 2003? Saddam’s weapons of mass “deception” and his purported links with al Qaeda? It is only a coincidence that Iraq holds 140 billion barrels of proven crude oil reserves and produces more than 3 million barrels per day of crude oil.

Then again what did the Western mainstream media tell us about the Libyan so-called “humanitarian intervention” in 2011? Peaceful and democratic protests by the supposedly “moderate and secular” Libyans against the Qaddafi regime and the Western responsibility to protect the supposedly democratic revolutions and civilian lives? Once again it is only a coincidence that Libya holds 48 billion barrels of proven oil reserves and produces 1.6 million barrels per day of most easily extractable crude.

Only thing that differentiates Islamic State from other ragtag jihadist outfits is its sophisticated weapons arsenal that has been provided to it by NATO and bankrolled by the Gulf Arab states during the Syrian proxy war; another factor that gives a comparative advantage to Islamic State over other jihadist outfits is its top and mid-tier command structure, which is comprised of professional, ex-Baathist military and intelligence officers from Saddam era.

In order to sustain their crumbling “war on terror” narrative, the Western powers now make a distinction between “the green, yellow and red terrorists” – green militants, like the Free Syria Army, whom the NATO overtly supports; yellow jihadists, such as the Army of Conquest that includes the Saudi-supported, hardline Islamists like Ahrar al-Sham and the al-Qaeda-affiliate al-Nusra Front, whom the NATO covertly supports; and the red terrorists like the Islamic State which is a by-product of the hypocritical Western policy in Syria and Iraq.

In the last 15 years of the so-called “war on terror” the Western powers have toppled only a single Islamist regime of Taliban in Afghanistan and three Arab nationalist regimes — Saddam’s Baathist regime in Iraq, Qaddafi’s Afro-Arab nationalist regime in Libya and they are now desperately trying to oust another anti-Zionist, Baathist regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.

After invading and occupying Afghanistan and Iraq, and when the American “nation-building” projects failed in those hapless countries, the US’ policy-makers immediately realized that they were facing large-scale and popularly-rooted insurgencies against the foreign occupation, consequently, the occupying military altered its CT (counter-terrorism) doctrines in the favor of a COIN (counter-insurgency) strategy. A COIN strategy is essentially different from a CT approach and it also involves dialogue, negotiations and political settlements, alongside the coercive tactics of law enforcement and military and paramilitary operations on a limited scale.

Finally, I fail to see the reason that why do the Western powers have been blowing the Islamist insurgencies in the Middle East out of proportions, which have been anything but the consequence of their own ill-conceived wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Syria? What is it that the insurgents want and the so-called “liberal interventionists” cannot accept as a matter of principle? Is it the enforcement of Shari’a, or the barbaric Hudood-style executions that have earned the Taliban, Islamic State, al Shabaab and Boko Haram the odium of the international community? If that is the case, then why do the Western powers overlook the excesses committed by Saudi Arabia where Shari’a is the law of the land and Hudood-style executions are an everyday occurrence?

This contradiction speaks volumes about the sheer hypocrisy and double standards of the Western powers: that, when it comes to securing 265 billion barrels of Saudi oil reserves and 100 billion barrels, each, of UAE and Kuwait that together constitutes 465 billion barrels, i.e. one-third of the world’s proven crude oil reserves, they are willing to overlook the excesses that have been committed by such Medieval regimes but when it comes to negotiating with the Islamist insurgents to reach political settlements and to let up on all the violence and spilling of blood in the region, they stand firm against the so-called “terrorists” as a matter of principle.

Full article at; http://www.eurasiareview.com/0906201...dle-east-oped/
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Abz2000
08-09-2016, 10:03 AM
Quite a lot of valid questions for the world's people to ponder over, may Allah give us the ability to think straight and to take out some time to think about what's going on once in a while, but ultimately, in order to set things right, each individual needs to look in the mirror and realise that they can't play two roles at the same time, but need to try and walk in Allah's path, that way, the power of tyrants will become an illusory trick like the ropes of Pharaoh's magicians.
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M.I.A.
08-09-2016, 01:03 PM
I have no idea where you people live? in what reality..

the world is not built on ideals, it is built on those that impose them..

all that ever happens is one tyrant replaces another.. none claim the title unfortunately.. and why should they?

all they do is win..

and when one finally realises that there are bigger and smaller fish on the scale..

then you hire administrative assistant's.


the world is built on good company and conversation.. most people are ignorant of this cinderella story.

and it never materialises, to think that you would complain about the west and investments..

while ironically those skyscrapers are built by unfairly paid immigrant workers.. sometimes not paid at all..

call it an industrial revolution by any other name.

gee it really makes you think.. but not really.

Maybe those that terrorise can expect better dividends tomorrow..

although they were thoughtlessly unaware of the unidealistic rivers of oil beneath them..

enough to rebuild there own lands, as long as they learned how to play nice..

sometimes I feel a fish has no awareness of its size..

and it's companions still cry.
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Serinity
08-09-2016, 01:34 PM
:salams

why not just cut ties with U.S.A and other Western countries - economic ties?

Cuz we shouldn't be dependent or reliant on western nations. It'd be best if Saudi and other Muslim/Islamic nations to use the oil and establish their own countries independent of Western help.

That way we aren't forced to do things or obey them to such an extent as to ignore their bombings.

And Allah :swt: knows best.
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M.I.A.
08-09-2016, 01:40 PM
because skyscrapers built from oil barrels are much better than steel and concrete..

I hate myself sometimes.

what are you implying? that playing with money is somehow different when it's between Muslims?

..is playing with bombs any easier?

most battles are won and lost long before any battlefield is reached.

..Unfortunately it's that thinking that creates tyrants.

the art of submission is something entirely different.

in the end, Allah swt does know best..

my incompetence proceeds me.. probably.
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kritikvernunft
08-09-2016, 05:45 PM
format_quote Originally Posted by islamirama
Finally, I fail to see the reason that why do the Western powers have been blowing the Islamist insurgencies in the Middle East out of proportions ... What is it that the insurgents want and the so-called “liberal interventionists” cannot accept as a matter of principle?
The insurgency will spread like wildfire and overthrow one by one their allies in the Middle East. Egypt, Jordan, Saudi, UAE, Qatar, ...
The state of Israel depends especially on the regimes in Jordan and Egypt to remain their friends ...
But then again, the moves on the chessboard are such that the conflict will end up engulfing the European Union. That is inevitable. In that sense, with the boomerang effect being actually something desirable, it is a good thing (tm) that the EU entered the conflict and mostly in vain assists with subduing the insurgency. It will backfire harder. I would not want to see them leaving the conflict now. On the contrary, it would be much better if they got dragged into it more deeply. It is therefore also a question of looking at the good side of things.
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