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America Created Al-Qaeda and the ISIS Terror Group
Much like Al Qaeda, the Islamic State (ISIS) is made-in-the-USA, an instrument of terror designed to divide and conquer the oil-rich Middle East and to counter Iran’s growing influence in the region.
The fact that the United States has a long and torrid history of backing terrorist groups will surprise only those who watch the news and ignore history.
The CIA first aligned itself with extremist Islam during the Cold War era. Back then, America saw the world in rather simple terms: on one side, the Soviet Union and Third World nationalism, which America regarded as a Soviet tool; on the other side, Western nations and militant political Islam, which America considered an ally in the struggle against the Soviet Union.
The director of the National Security Agency under Ronald Reagan, General William Odom recently remarked, “by any measure the U.S. has long used terrorism".
During the 1970's the CIA used the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt as a barrier, both to thwart Soviet expansion and prevent the spread of Marxist ideology among the Arab masses. Lest we forget, the CIA gave birth to Osama Bin Laden and breastfed his organization during the 1980's. Former British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, told the House of Commons that Al Qaeda was unquestionably a product of Western intelligence agencies.Thousands of Islamist extremists were trained by the CIA and funded by the Saudis, in order to defeat the Russians in Afghanistan.
The Islamic State is its latest weapon that, much like Al Qaeda, is certainly backfiring. ISIS recently rose to international prominence after its thugs began beheading American journalists. Now the terrorist group controls an area the size of the United Kingdom.
In order to understand why the Islamic State has grown and flourished so quickly, one has to take a look at the organization’s American-backed roots. The 2003 American invasion and occupation of Iraq created the pre-conditions for radical Sunni groups, like ISIS, to take root. America, rather unwisely, destroyed Saddam Hussein’s secular state machinery and replaced it with a predominantly Shiite administration. The U.S. occupation caused vast unemployment in Sunni areas, by rejecting socialism and closing down factories in the naive hope that the magical hand of the free market would create jobs. Under the new U.S.-backed Shiite regime, working class Sunni’s lost hundreds of thousands of jobs. Unlike the white Afrikaners in South Africa, who were allowed to keep their wealth after regime change, upper class Sunni’s were systematically dispossessed of their assets and lost their political influence. Rather than promoting religious integration and unity, American policy in Iraq exacerbated sectarian divisions and created a fertile breading ground for Sunni discontent, from which Al Qaeda in Iraq took root.
The so-called “War on Terror” should be seen for what it really is: a pretext for maintaining a dangerously oversized U.S. military. The two most powerful groups in the U.S. foreign policy establishment are the Israel lobby, which directs U.S. Middle East policy, and the Military-Industrial-Complex, which profits from the former group’s actions. Since George W. Bush declared the “War on Terror” in October 2001, it has cost the American taxpayer approximately 6.6 trillion dollars and thousands of fallen sons and daughters; but, the wars have also raked in billions of dollars for Washington’s military elite.
In fact, more than seventy American companies and individuals have won up to $27 billion in contracts for work in postwar Iraq and Afghanistan over the last three years, according to a recent study by the Center for Public Integrity.
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The fact that the United States has a long and torrid history of backing terrorist groups will surprise only those who watch the news and ignore history.
The CIA first aligned itself with extremist Islam during the Cold War era. Back then, America saw the world in rather simple terms: on one side, the Soviet Union and Third World nationalism, which America regarded as a Soviet tool; on the other side, Western nations and militant political Islam, which America considered an ally in the struggle against the Soviet Union.
The director of the National Security Agency under Ronald Reagan, General William Odom recently remarked, “by any measure the U.S. has long used terrorism".
During the 1970's the CIA used the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt as a barrier, both to thwart Soviet expansion and prevent the spread of Marxist ideology among the Arab masses. Lest we forget, the CIA gave birth to Osama Bin Laden and breastfed his organization during the 1980's. Former British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, told the House of Commons that Al Qaeda was unquestionably a product of Western intelligence agencies.Thousands of Islamist extremists were trained by the CIA and funded by the Saudis, in order to defeat the Russians in Afghanistan.
The Islamic State is its latest weapon that, much like Al Qaeda, is certainly backfiring. ISIS recently rose to international prominence after its thugs began beheading American journalists. Now the terrorist group controls an area the size of the United Kingdom.
In order to understand why the Islamic State has grown and flourished so quickly, one has to take a look at the organization’s American-backed roots. The 2003 American invasion and occupation of Iraq created the pre-conditions for radical Sunni groups, like ISIS, to take root. America, rather unwisely, destroyed Saddam Hussein’s secular state machinery and replaced it with a predominantly Shiite administration. The U.S. occupation caused vast unemployment in Sunni areas, by rejecting socialism and closing down factories in the naive hope that the magical hand of the free market would create jobs. Under the new U.S.-backed Shiite regime, working class Sunni’s lost hundreds of thousands of jobs. Unlike the white Afrikaners in South Africa, who were allowed to keep their wealth after regime change, upper class Sunni’s were systematically dispossessed of their assets and lost their political influence. Rather than promoting religious integration and unity, American policy in Iraq exacerbated sectarian divisions and created a fertile breading ground for Sunni discontent, from which Al Qaeda in Iraq took root.
The so-called “War on Terror” should be seen for what it really is: a pretext for maintaining a dangerously oversized U.S. military. The two most powerful groups in the U.S. foreign policy establishment are the Israel lobby, which directs U.S. Middle East policy, and the Military-Industrial-Complex, which profits from the former group’s actions. Since George W. Bush declared the “War on Terror” in October 2001, it has cost the American taxpayer approximately 6.6 trillion dollars and thousands of fallen sons and daughters; but, the wars have also raked in billions of dollars for Washington’s military elite.
In fact, more than seventy American companies and individuals have won up to $27 billion in contracts for work in postwar Iraq and Afghanistan over the last three years, according to a recent study by the Center for Public Integrity.
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so do we have a capable president? Or a lame one.
Presidential candidate, Huckabee just said on his interview with MSNBC an hour ago and quote:
THE PRESIDENT HAS THE PRIMARY OBLIGATION TO PROTECT AMERICA AND NOT DEFENDING THE REPUTATION OF ISLAM.
What do you think fellow citizens of the world.
Remember, his first word after the attack was: THIS IS A WAR AGAINST HUMANITY.
Yet on his speech yesterday he claims that we just have to reinforce what we are doing and that 4.1 billion US dollars was already donated to the refugees.
What do you think?
Thank you all for your reads and comment.
NOTE: Humanity is at stake.These events seem to suggest we are losing it. We do have all the right to live, in peace and justice, regardless of sex, race and or religion.
Now as a president, is he doing what is expected on these difficult and challenging events?
Or are these attacks preventable? Better yet should we just coil and wait for our turn to be slaughtered?
THE PRESIDENT HAS THE PRIMARY OBLIGATION TO PROTECT AMERICA AND NOT DEFENDING THE REPUTATION OF ISLAM.
What do you think fellow citizens of the world.
Remember, his first word after the attack was: THIS IS A WAR AGAINST HUMANITY.
Yet on his speech yesterday he claims that we just have to reinforce what we are doing and that 4.1 billion US dollars was already donated to the refugees.
What do you think?
Thank you all for your reads and comment.
NOTE: Humanity is at stake.These events seem to suggest we are losing it. We do have all the right to live, in peace and justice, regardless of sex, race and or religion.
Now as a president, is he doing what is expected on these difficult and challenging events?
Or are these attacks preventable? Better yet should we just coil and wait for our turn to be slaughtered?
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Media Call Out Donald Trump's Plan To Ban Muslims
Media Call Out Donald Trump's Plan To Ban Muslims From The US For Playing Into The Hands Of ISIS
Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook:
Anything To Suggest The US "Is At Odds With The Muslim Faith ... Would Be Counterproductive To Our Efforts" To Defeat ISIS.
In a December 8 press briefing, Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook alluded to Trump's proposal in explaining that it "would be counterproductive" to the goal of defeating ISIS to create "the notion that the United States is at odds with the Muslim faith and Islam".
We have troops serving that follow the Muslim faith. And, again, without wading into politics, anything that tries to bolster, if you will, the ISIL narrative that the United States is somehow at war with Islam is contrary to our values and contrary to our national security.
We are, as I mentioned, working with Muslim nations right now. We want to, in essence, take the fight to ISIL with the help of -- of Muslims and others around the world. And anything that -- that somehow challenges that, we think would be counterproductive to our national security.
New York Times' Frank Bruni:
Trump "Has Given The Islamic State ... A Piece Of Propaganda As Big As Any Of His Resorts."
In a December 8 op-ed, New York Times opinion columnist Frank Bruni stated that Trump's policy proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the United States "has practically collaborated with the enemy by playing into a narrative of Muslim persecution":
But what Trump just did took pressure off the president by redirecting the conversation from his tentativeness to Trump's insane overreach. We should tell him that, and we should add that he has practically collaborated with the enemy by playing into a narrative of Muslim persecution and a grand war between civilizations.
He has given the Islamic State and other barbarians a piece of propaganda as big as any of his resorts and as shimmering as any of his office towers.
NBC News' Richard Engel:
Trump's Policy "Just Feeds Into The ISIS Narrative," And Presents "A National Security Issue."
In a December 7 appearance on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel slammed Trump's proposal to ban foreign Muslims from the United States, saying it "feeds into the ISIS narrative," and "it is a national security issue." Engel explained that ISIS claims "the world is against Muslims and we, ISIS, are defending Muslims. So here comes Mr. Trump and says ISIS is right":
ENGEL: ISIS says, join the ISIS cause because the world is against Muslims and we, ISIS, are defending Muslims. So here comes Mr. Trump and says, ISIS is right. Join the ISIS team or join other radicals, or you're going to be deported, or you're going to be kicked out of the country. I kept saying, thinking to myself while he was making these statements, what exactly would this look like? I spend a lot of time on planes. So you come to the airport. Are there people standing there asking you questions? Are you a Muslim? How exactly do you prove it? Do you prove a negative? What do you know about Islam? Tell me what you think about Mohammed. Does that mean people from Indonesia, people from every corner of the Muslim world, over a billion people, including U.S. citizens?
New York Times' Thomas Friedman:
Trump, by alienating the Muslim world with his call for a ban on Muslims entering America, is acting as the Islamic State's secret agent. ISIS wants every Muslim in America (and Europe) to feel alienated. If that happens, ISIS won't need to recruit anyone. People will will just act on their own. ISIS and Islamic extremism are Muslim problems that can only be fixed by Muslims. Lumping all Muslims together as our enemies will only make that challenge harder.
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Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook:
Anything To Suggest The US "Is At Odds With The Muslim Faith ... Would Be Counterproductive To Our Efforts" To Defeat ISIS.
In a December 8 press briefing, Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook alluded to Trump's proposal in explaining that it "would be counterproductive" to the goal of defeating ISIS to create "the notion that the United States is at odds with the Muslim faith and Islam".
We have troops serving that follow the Muslim faith. And, again, without wading into politics, anything that tries to bolster, if you will, the ISIL narrative that the United States is somehow at war with Islam is contrary to our values and contrary to our national security.
We are, as I mentioned, working with Muslim nations right now. We want to, in essence, take the fight to ISIL with the help of -- of Muslims and others around the world. And anything that -- that somehow challenges that, we think would be counterproductive to our national security.
New York Times' Frank Bruni:
Trump "Has Given The Islamic State ... A Piece Of Propaganda As Big As Any Of His Resorts."
In a December 8 op-ed, New York Times opinion columnist Frank Bruni stated that Trump's policy proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the United States "has practically collaborated with the enemy by playing into a narrative of Muslim persecution":
But what Trump just did took pressure off the president by redirecting the conversation from his tentativeness to Trump's insane overreach. We should tell him that, and we should add that he has practically collaborated with the enemy by playing into a narrative of Muslim persecution and a grand war between civilizations.
He has given the Islamic State and other barbarians a piece of propaganda as big as any of his resorts and as shimmering as any of his office towers.
NBC News' Richard Engel:
Trump's Policy "Just Feeds Into The ISIS Narrative," And Presents "A National Security Issue."
In a December 7 appearance on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel slammed Trump's proposal to ban foreign Muslims from the United States, saying it "feeds into the ISIS narrative," and "it is a national security issue." Engel explained that ISIS claims "the world is against Muslims and we, ISIS, are defending Muslims. So here comes Mr. Trump and says ISIS is right":
ENGEL: ISIS says, join the ISIS cause because the world is against Muslims and we, ISIS, are defending Muslims. So here comes Mr. Trump and says, ISIS is right. Join the ISIS team or join other radicals, or you're going to be deported, or you're going to be kicked out of the country. I kept saying, thinking to myself while he was making these statements, what exactly would this look like? I spend a lot of time on planes. So you come to the airport. Are there people standing there asking you questions? Are you a Muslim? How exactly do you prove it? Do you prove a negative? What do you know about Islam? Tell me what you think about Mohammed. Does that mean people from Indonesia, people from every corner of the Muslim world, over a billion people, including U.S. citizens?
New York Times' Thomas Friedman:
Trump, by alienating the Muslim world with his call for a ban on Muslims entering America, is acting as the Islamic State's secret agent. ISIS wants every Muslim in America (and Europe) to feel alienated. If that happens, ISIS won't need to recruit anyone. People will will just act on their own. ISIS and Islamic extremism are Muslim problems that can only be fixed by Muslims. Lumping all Muslims together as our enemies will only make that challenge harder.
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LIFE IS EASIER IF YOU TELL LIES AND FALSE PROMISES
The policy of politicians: LIES! Unfortunately, Donald Trump is not one. He should go to an institution on The Art of Lying, get speech courses from lawyers or diplomats and observe Democrats and Republicans. One should not think aloud and speak abrasively, phrases and words should be sugar coated! Or perhaps he should just concentrate to increase his billions and continue his TV shows. He should be a hypocrite, don't displease anybody in the GPO, kiss the asses of everyone. He does not speak the language in the political world : LIES!
But is there an Immigration Nationality Law that says any group who is a threat to the constitution should not be allowed, and Islam is against the constitution of any peace-freedom loving democratic nations in Europe and America! France has less than 10% Muslim population, but in Marseille there are more mosque than churches and the Islamists can breed terrorists as reality shows with the Charlie Hebdo bombing & the latest attack in Paris. Anyway, countries should protect themselves from unrest that is fueled by these discontented Islamist who would like to rule! Sorry, I cannot vote for Trump but AMERICANS SHOULD WAKE UP! Are you going to wait for more tragedies, terrorists blowing up other people like in France? Obama won because he lied....he didn't like to present his original birth certificate, did not expose he is a Muslim, etc. In France, they can swing quickly to the far right after seeing those dead bodies and the detrimental economic situations. Marine Le Pen, dubbed as a racist may even win if she runs for president.
If Donald Trump will be dumped by the GPO, I think, it's a big slap against democracy, and they are slapping a lot of Americans across the face! He represents a sincere American who needs coaching in the political arena. He did not get rich by manipulating tax payers money...not a politician at all!
Thanks for reading.
But is there an Immigration Nationality Law that says any group who is a threat to the constitution should not be allowed, and Islam is against the constitution of any peace-freedom loving democratic nations in Europe and America! France has less than 10% Muslim population, but in Marseille there are more mosque than churches and the Islamists can breed terrorists as reality shows with the Charlie Hebdo bombing & the latest attack in Paris. Anyway, countries should protect themselves from unrest that is fueled by these discontented Islamist who would like to rule! Sorry, I cannot vote for Trump but AMERICANS SHOULD WAKE UP! Are you going to wait for more tragedies, terrorists blowing up other people like in France? Obama won because he lied....he didn't like to present his original birth certificate, did not expose he is a Muslim, etc. In France, they can swing quickly to the far right after seeing those dead bodies and the detrimental economic situations. Marine Le Pen, dubbed as a racist may even win if she runs for president.
If Donald Trump will be dumped by the GPO, I think, it's a big slap against democracy, and they are slapping a lot of Americans across the face! He represents a sincere American who needs coaching in the political arena. He did not get rich by manipulating tax payers money...not a politician at all!
Thanks for reading.
Trump
Trump verified his true colors and showed he is the lowest form of humanity when he mocked a reporter who has disabilities. Anyone who would stoop that low doesn't even deserve to be a dog catcher, I can't imagine anyone voting for him as a president, if they do , they establish their character. There is an old saying that holds true, "BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER" 
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refugees, should the world take them? part 2
So many developing stories and documents are put forth out there rejecting them to be admitted, but this is for anyone to want to say yes or no.
Why? yes?
why no?
Is there any better alternative to tackle this challenge?
Why?
yes?why no?
Is there any better alternative to tackle this challenge?
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refugees, should we take them?
I don't know about you, but I personally think we should share this responsibility with the world. But make sure of two things: our safety is priority and they assimilate.
When we become naturalized, we're asked to speak English and support our Constitution.
Should they be obliged?
Note: Europe has released a lot of documents on the refusal of these refugees to abide by the German constitution.
Is there anything we can do different? Or simply over ride that provision and take them anyways?
Thanks all for your reads and comments.
When we become naturalized, we're asked to speak English and support our Constitution.
Should they be obliged?
Note: Europe has released a lot of documents on the refusal of these refugees to abide by the German constitution.
Is there anything we can do different? Or simply over ride that provision and take them anyways?
Thanks all for your reads and comments.
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who is the best of the candidates on GOP?
Anyone watched the debate last night?
I'm sure some would be leaning towards Christy and possibly even Carson.
I am positive it'd better be someone who can collapse Hillary, as I'm sure she'll be the one on the liberal side.
I'm sure some would be leaning towards Christy and possibly even Carson.
I am positive it'd better be someone who can collapse Hillary, as I'm sure she'll be the one on the liberal side.
CAN WE BE ABLE TO GET FREEDOM
Would the poor people of thirld world countries be able to get rid of insincere and selfish leadership....get rid of corrupt culture...get rid of vvip culture...get rid of fundamentalism..get rid of vicious circle of poverty...
Every day they live with the hope but to no fruite as the elite class corrupt politicians would never allow this to come true..
Every day they live with the hope but to no fruite as the elite class corrupt politicians would never allow this to come true..
A good day in Canada...
....on Monday, when the Neo-Con who was ruining the country got tossed out of office. Okay, elected out of office.
This song is dedicated to Mr. Stephen Harper and any other politicians who plunder the country they were elected to govern.
This song is dedicated to Mr. Stephen Harper and any other politicians who plunder the country they were elected to govern.
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