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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChris Floyd: The Age of Despair: Reaping the Whirlwind of Western Support for Extremist Violence
Chris writes in the weekend edition of CounterPunch about who is really to blame for the attacks on Paris:
" We, the West, overthrew Saddam by violence. We overthrew Gaddafi by violence. We are trying to overthrow Assad by violence. Harsh regimes all but far less draconian than our Saudi allies, and other tyrannies around the world. What has been the result of these interventions? A hell on earth, one that grows wider and more virulent year after year.
Without the American crime of aggressive war against Iraq which, by the measurements used by Western governments themselves, left more than a million innocent people dead there would be no ISIS, no Al Qaeda in Iraq. Without the Saudi and Western funding and arming of an amalgam of extremist Sunni groups across the Middle East, used as proxies to strike at Iran and its allies, there would be no ISIS. Lets go back further. Without the direct, extensive and deliberate creation by the United States and its Saudi ally of a world-wide movement of armed Sunni extremists during the Carter and Reagan administrations, there would have been no War on Terror and no terrorist attacks in Paris"
"I write in despair. Despair of course at the depravity displayed by the murderers of innocents in Paris tonight; but an even deeper despair at the depravity of the egregious murderers who have brought us to this ghastly place in human history: those gilded figures who have strode the halls of power for decades in the high chambers of the West, killing innocent people by the hundreds of thousands, crushing secular opposition to their favored dictators and again, again and again supporting, funding and arming some of the most virulent sectarians on earth."
Here is a link to the entire article: http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/11/13/the-age-of-despair-reaping-the-whirlwind-of-western-support-for-extremist-violence/ a very good read!
Javaman
(62,532 posts)to destabilize the 3rd world nations than any other country.
Niomi Klein called it "Disaster Capitalism"
the pleasure of 1st world nations to fuck around with 3rd world nations for profit.
Or even further back than that, Gen. Smedley Butlers book, "War is a Racket"
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)And they make it look like they are the big freakin' heroes!
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)nothing to see here...