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“They’re All Bandits!” Russia Will Not Stop Syria Airstrikes Regardless Of Ceasefire
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zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden on 02/15/2016 21:20
Once upon a time, the CIA and Washington’s Mid-East Sunni allies had an idea.
The American forces occupying Iraq were handed a bit of a lemon in 2004 when Abu-Mus’ab al-Zarqawi pledged allegiance to Osama Bin Laden and took command of the al-Qaeda cell in Iraq, which grew by recruiting from the ranks of Saddam’s scattered security apparatus.
But you know what they say, “when absurd Mid-East foreign policy decisions end up handing you lemons, make sectarian lemonade,” and so Washington, Riyadh, and Doha eventually decided that AQI might just have a part to play in toppling the Alawite government in neighboring Syria.
And then, somewhere along the way, things went horribly awry. AQI became Islamic State and the “oust Assad” narrative took a backseat to the group’s new goal: establishing a medieval caliphate. Now, a decade after al-Zarqawi’s death, ISIS has metamorphosed into a black flag-waving, sword-wielding, white basketball shoe-wearing, slave-taking, flesh-eating band of marauding desert bandits in what is easily the worst case of blowback in the history of US foreign policy.
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Source: http://silveristhenew.com/2016/02/15/theyre-all-bandits-russia-will-not-stop-syria-airstrikes-regardless-of-ceasefire-2/
