Why The
Infernal Terror Spiral Will Go On And On
By Pepe Escobar
July 15, 2016 "Information
Clearing House"
- We still don’t know if this man is a jihadi
lone wolf or not – even as his modus operandi comes
straight from Daesh’s playbook. And even if he’s not
an insta-jihadi, what’s certain is that his
appalling “example” will be emulated.
The Washington-Riyadh axis used terror in
Afghanistan even BEFORE the 1980s jihad. Wahhabism
destroyed both Afghanistan and Pakistan, installing
a Kalashnikov culture. Shock and Awe in 2003 led to
Washington promoting Divide and Rule as in pitting
Sunnis against Shi’ites – and that brought terror to
Iraq. Washington and Brussels supported jihadis in
both Libya and Syria, and that was supported even by
the liberal 'human rights' left. Ah, but the (bogus)
enemy is Putin and “Russian aggression”. Meanwhile
the real enemy – Salafi-jihadis – even gets crucial
“support” (and weapons). Add to it the blowback for
NATO’s wars – a taboo discussion in the West.
Nothing was done against the ideological matrix of
jihadism: Wahhabism. So nothing will change. The
Empire of Chaos WON’T withdraw from the Middle East
for the pivot to Asia; it wants both. Kerry in
Moscow yesterday offering a plan to Putin to fight
Daesh together – that’s yet more shadowplay for the
galleries. Washington may put up a pretense of
fighting Daesh while the CIA support for “moderate
rebels” won’t abate. FrankenDaesh - which was let
loose to fester by a "willful" decision in
Washington - is now, for all practical purposes, a
Cyber-Caliphate. It does NOT need territory. It
continues to project an image of success. And that’s
why it still manages to attract – and “inspire” -
all manner of deeply alienated individuals living in
the West. This infernal spiral is bound to go on and
on and on.
Pepe Escobar
is an analyst for RT and TomDispatch. Born in
Brazil, he's been a foreign correspondent since
1985, and has lived in London, Paris, Milan, Los
Angeles, Washington, Bangkok and Hong Kong.
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