[Iran Press TV] The United States and its allies seek to sustain the growth of the ISIL terrorist group across the Middle East to create chaos in the region and preserve the prosperity of the US military-industrial complex, says a former American intelligence linguist.I'm a former American intelligence linguist and I wouldn't say that. Just having once translated Chinese or Russian or Xhosa doesn't make you an expert on Middle Eastern terror networks, nor on U.S. or British foreign policy. Once having watched Dragnet doesn't make you a policeman.
"The fact remains that the coalition forces pretty much led by the US and the British empire, England, have really been designed to maintain the growth of ISIS, not to cease its operations," said Scott Rickard, using another acronym for the terror network.
At this point, in fact, I'd venture to say that no one's an "expert" on the Islamic State, not even the people within its command structure. It's an organization that grew out of al-Qaeda in Iraq as conceived by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who under normal circumstances should have ended his days howling at the moon in Bedlam. The reason AQI was so effective was because its head was a brutal nut. Had he been a routine Evil Genius™ like bin Laden his actions could have been anticipated and countered. But lunatics don't reason like we do, no more than Iran's propaganda machine.The US military is not using its overwhelming force to destroy ISIL because the group's demise will destroy a major source of revenue for the American military-industrial complex, Rickard told Press TV on Saturday.
That makes sense. Not a lot of sense, but sense of a sort, if you look at it from just the right angle and squint just right. Otherwise it looks like the kind of gibberish you'd find somewhere between A.N.S.W.E.R. and Hizb ut-Tahrir.
ISIL's downfall will end the US military campaign and along with it the "economic prosperity that's coming out of this endless and perpetual war that's really been created and funded and also perpetuated by the West," he added.That's the "endless war" strawman that's been stuffed by the further reaches of the American left since the Vietnam war. Originally pushed by Soviet puppets it now has a life of its own, kind of like Liberation Theology.
Rickard characterized ISIL as a "mercenary force", armed and funded by the very same coalition that has been engaged in the bombing campaign against the group for nearly 10 months.
That doesn't make any sense at all. In fact, it's such a stupid concept it's breath-taking. It simply doesn't compute. Fail. Divide by zero error. It suggests we're creating enemies for ourselves so we can sell ourselves bombs to obliterate them in a sort of endless loop of destruction.
The ISIL gunnies have been able to maintain 80 to 90 percent of territory under their control in 4 to 6 thousands of coalition sorties targeting their positions, he said.
Surely it would make more sense for us to establish and fund a powerful network of worldwide terrorism pushing Jeffersonian democracy, or even Whiggery than establishing same pushing Islam, which is a repellent culture to those of us who believe in Cause and Effect?A senior B.O. regime official said Tuesday that the battle to destroy ISIL in Iraq could take at least three to five years.
Of course they also said that Yemen was a model of success in the WoT.
State Department front man John Kirby, a retired Navy admiral, appeared on a talk show to clarify President Barack Obama's
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comments at the G7 summit the day before, in which he admitted his administration lacked a "complete strategy" against ISIL.
I hope they pay him well. It's a tough job, defending the indefensible.