Notwithstanding the inevitability of death that happens to all mortals, any fatal outcome is unacceptable, not to speak of deadly attacks by gunmen and suicide bombers on 13 November night that befell people in Paris leaving at least 129 people dead and hundreds wounded. We join the voices of reason and sanity in condemning the dastardly acts of the IS militants and wish for a solution to the complex crisis.
Tens of thousands of foreign Muslims from France, the UK, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Australia, Indonesia, the US and other places are thought to have immigrated to the Islamic State (IS) also known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) led by and mainly composed of Wahhabi/Salafi extremist militant Sunni Arabs from Iraq and Syria. [Vide Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, March 2015]
Legendary American scholar, Professor Emeritus and astute political commentator Noam Chomsky of MIT said on 02 Nov 2014 that ISIL is a joint CIA, MI6 and Mossad project. [Vide sachtimes. com/en/…/1656-noam-chomsky-isis-is-a-saudi-u.s]. “ISIS is one of the results of the United States hitting a very vulnerable society with a sledgehammer, which elicited sectarian conflicts that had not existed,” says Noam Chomsky. “It is hard to see how Iraq can even be held together at this point. It has been devastated by U.S. sanctions, the war, the atrocities that followed from it. [Vide democracynow. org/ 2015/3/2/noam Chomsky 2 March 2015]
Ben Norton writes, “We created Islamic extremism: Those blaming Islam for ISIS would have supported Osama bin Laden in the 1980s. Jingoists conveniently forget the West’s Cold War strategy was to arm the Islamic extremists that became al-Qaida. The Islamic extremism ravaging the world today was borne out of the Western foreign policy of yesteryear. Gore Vidal famously referred to the USA as the United States of Amnesia. The late Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai put it a little more delicately, quipping, “One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory.” [Vide salon.com /2015/11/17/]
Throughout the 1980s, the U.S. government supported and armed bin Laden and his mujahedin in Afghanistan, in their fight against the Soviet Union. President Ronald Reagan famously met with the mujahedin in the Oval Office in 1983. “To watch the courageous Afghan freedom fighters battle modern arsenals with simple hand-held weapons is an inspiration to those who love freedom,” Reagan declared. Those “freedom fighters” are the forefathers of ISIS and al-Qaida.
There is a convenient tendency to imprudently fight shy of the core question as to how this violent extremism originated. “If one doesn’t know why a problem emerged, if one cannot find its root, one will never be able to solve and uproot it”. Throughout the 1980s, the US government supported and armed Osama bin Laden and his Mujahedin in Afghanistan, in their fight against the Soviet Union.
Subsequently the US demonized Osama—- the very father of Al- Qaida “freedom” fighters—-as Twin Towers were destroyed, which is still being questioned. General Wesley Clark, U.S. Army, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, 1997 – 2001, says right after 9/11, he was given a classified memo from Rumsfeld’s office that described “how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and, finishing off, Iran”; thereby, indicating that 9/11 had been staged as a “False Flag” operation.[Vide http:/ /investigate911.org/]. And 75 top professors and leading scientists claim 9/11 was an ‘inside job’—-indicating that it was not the result of attack from outside by two aircraft. [Vide topinfopost. com/2014/02/26/ 75-top -professors- and-leading- scientists].
As of now France and the West including Russian President Putin have chosen military option to resolve this complex crisis which may not produce the desired result, because terrorism cannot be won by military means. Diplomatic, non-military modus operandi should be devised.
Last but not least, the US shall have to change its foreign policy; so should do its Western allies.
Source: Weekly Holiday