Craig Murray — Continued American Describe Of Piece Of Occupation Of The Midpoint Eastward Does Non Suppress Terrorism, It Causes It

Even the neo-con warmongers’ menage mag The Guardian, furious at Trump’s attempts to draw U.S. troops out of Syria, inwards producing a map to illustrate its point, could only produce i single, uncertain, really brusque pen stroke to depict the infinitesimal strip of territory it claims ISIS nonetheless command on the Iraqi border.

Of course, the Guardian produces the declaration that continued U.S. armed forces presence is necessary to ensure that ISIS does non jump dorsum to life inwards Syria. The fallacy of that declaration tin last easily demonstrated. In Afghanistan, the USA has managed to drag out the long procedure of humiliating defeat inwards state of war fifty-fifty farther than it did inwards Vietnam. It is plainly equally a pikestaff that the presence of U.S. trouble troops is itself the best recruiting sergeant for resistance. In Sikunder Burnes I line how the battle lines of tribal alliances in that place today are exactly the same ones the British faced inwards 1841. We but attach labels similar Taliban to enshroud the fact that invaders expression upward national resistance.

The hole-and-corner to ending the forcefulness of ISIS inwards Syrian Arab Republic is non the continued presence of American troops. It is for America’s e'er closer allies inwards Kingdom of Saudi Arabia too the Gulf to cutting off the major artery of coin too arms, which nosotros should never forget inwards rootage too for a long fourth dimension had a potent U.S. component. The US/Saudi/Israeli alliance against Islamic Republic of Iran is the close of import geo-political gene inwards the share today. It is high fourth dimension this alliance stopped both funding ISIS too pretending to struggle it; schizophrenia is non a unusual policy stance.... 

The chaos of this incoherent too counterproductive strategy is, particularly enough, what the neocons genuinely want. Perpetual state of war too destabilisation inwards the Middle East is their goal. One of the findings I had non expected to uncovering inwards writing Sikunder Burnes was that the British had been deliberately exploiting too exacerbating the Shia/Sunni dissever equally early on equally 1836 to the Imperial purpose. Today, past times keeping Arab populations pitiful too politically divided, the neo-cons believe that they heighten the safety of Israel, too they sure as shooting arrive at facilitate the access of western companies to the crude oil too gas of the region, equally nosotros meet inwards destabilised Republic of Iraq too Libya.… 

I convey written earlier that Trump may last a rotten President for Americans, but at to the lowest degree he has non initiated a major war; too I am quite sure Hillary would convey done past times now. For a non-American, the alternative betwixt Hillary too Trump ended upward inwards balancing on i side of the scale the evil of millions to a greater extent than killed too maimed inwards the Middle East too the launching of a total on, unreserved novel Cold War, against on the other side of the scale poorer Americans having really bad healthcare too social provision too America adopting racist immigration policies. I arrive at promise that the neo-con barrage today contention for to a greater extent than American troops inwards the Middle East, volition assistance people retrieve but how really unattractive likewise is the Hillary side of the equation....

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Continued American Occupation of the Middle East Does Not Suppress Terrorism, It Causes It
Craig Murray, formerly British ambassador to Uzbekistan too Rector of the University of Dundee