Forgiving Al-Qaeda in Pursuit of a New Enemy

[eridani]

But on the other hand, Iran and Hexbollah are not in the most recent terror update.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026383615

http://fair.org/blog/2015/03/18/forgiving-al-qaeda-in-pursuit-of-a-new-enemy/

But maybe a split between Al-Nusra and Al-Qaeda isn't necessary. Under the headline "Accepting Al Qaeda," Foreign Policy (3/9/15) published a piece by Barak Mendelsohn that argued that

the instability in the Middle East following the Arab revolutions and the meteoric rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) require that Washington rethink its policy toward Al-Qaeda…. Destabilizing Al-Qaeda at this time may in fact work against US efforts to defeat ISIS.

Not only can Al-Qaeda be "an important player in curtailing ISIS’ growth," but it can help "contain Iran’s hegemonic aspirations, which threaten US allies," notes Mendelsohn, a political science professor at Haverford College and a veteran of Israeli intelligence.

Al-Qaeda's responsibility for the single worst massacre on US soil, an attack that has served to justify 13 years of continuous warfare, was not addressed. Why bring up water under the bridge, when ISIS is clearly so much worse?

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The US's invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, Friedman says, "created a vacuum in both Iraq and the wider Sunni Arab world," allowing "Tehran’s proxies" to "indirectly dominate four Arab capitals: Beirut, Damascus, Sana and Baghdad":

ISIS, with all its awfulness, emerged as the homegrown Sunni Arab response to this crushing defeat of Sunni Arabism…. Obviously, I abhor ISIS and don’t want to see it spread or take over Iraq. I simply raise this question rhetorically because no one else is: Why is it in our interest to destroy the last Sunni bulwark to a total Iranian takeover of Iraq? Because the Shiite militias now leading the fight against ISIS will rule better? Really?

Well, ISIS is openly committed to a policy of genocide–not only against non-Muslim minorities like the Yazidi (New York Times, 10/21/14), but against entire Shia denomination of Islam ("Shia have no medicine but the sword" is an ISIS slogan) who make up two-thirds of the population of Iraq. Thinking that that makes ISIS a bad choice to rule Iraq requires you to think of Shi'ite Muslims as human beings, I suppose.

[Fred Sanders]

1. ISIS "claims" responsibility for terror attacks in Yemen and Tunisia - American media believes them?

No evidence necessary, a Tweet will do?

The unquenchable American Thirst to have a single focused boogeyman makes confirmed liars and propagandists believable?! No evidence needed to have the military Save US From The Boogeyman!

AQ is SO yesterday's useful excuse to destroy the world with America's magnificent and getting rusty war machines.

No enemy, no war, no war, no massive military, no massive military.......see where that leads?

Get a grip, American traditional media, social news media is not scared.