KURTENBACH: ISIS - A complex Issue
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2014 12:37 pmKURTENBACH: ISIS - A complex Issue
Sent for publishing October 15, 2014 10:00 PM
To the Editor,
The beheading of western journalists from the US and Britain working in Iraq is a horrific act of violence. However, it cannot be separated from the invasions and wars in the Middle East by the USA and their allies, including Canada.
The basis of the formation of ISIS was initiated by the 1990/91 American invasion of Iraq during the presidency of the elder Bush. It was named the Gulf War. Then, in 2003, the second invasion of Iraq was titled George W. Bush's "Shock and Awe" war.
The number of American soldiers, and soldiers from other countries that contributed to the attacks on Iraq and Afghanistan, killed is over 6000. To that number, we have to add the thousands of Americans and their NATO military allies who were physically and mentally wounded, and some maimed for life. All at a cost of about 6 trillion dollars! Profits reaped by the manufacturers of the sophisticated weapons of war!
The human costs of those wars to the citizens of Iraq and Afghanistan is estimated at 1,300,000, that were killed wounded or displaced. And of course, that includes civilians, involving women and children There has never been a figure stated on the collateral damage to Iraqi and Afghan property. Trillions? And we did all this to bring our form of democracy to the Middle East!?
Considering the statistics above, it is no wonder that people in the Middle East are alienated by foreign military forces. These are the circumstances that lead to the formation of ISIS - now being recognized as extremists and terrorists.
Nafeez Ahmed, a British author, an investigative journalist, and an internationalist security scholar writes in his version of "How the West Created the Islamic State": “Since 2003, Anglo/American power has secretly and openly coordinated direct and indirect support for Islamist terrorist groups, linked to Al-quaeda across the Middle East and North Africa. This ill-conceived patchwork of geostrategy is the legacy of the persistent influence of neoconservative ideology, motivated by longstanding but often contradictory ambitions to dominate regional oil resources, defend expansionist Israel, and in pursuit of these, re-draw the map of the Middle East." – [ http://www.secretsofthefed.com/west-cre ... mic-state/ ]
Leo Kurtenbach,
Saskatoon, SK
Phone: 306.652. 5129
Sent for publishing October 15, 2014 10:00 PM
To the Editor,
The beheading of western journalists from the US and Britain working in Iraq is a horrific act of violence. However, it cannot be separated from the invasions and wars in the Middle East by the USA and their allies, including Canada.
The basis of the formation of ISIS was initiated by the 1990/91 American invasion of Iraq during the presidency of the elder Bush. It was named the Gulf War. Then, in 2003, the second invasion of Iraq was titled George W. Bush's "Shock and Awe" war.
The number of American soldiers, and soldiers from other countries that contributed to the attacks on Iraq and Afghanistan, killed is over 6000. To that number, we have to add the thousands of Americans and their NATO military allies who were physically and mentally wounded, and some maimed for life. All at a cost of about 6 trillion dollars! Profits reaped by the manufacturers of the sophisticated weapons of war!
The human costs of those wars to the citizens of Iraq and Afghanistan is estimated at 1,300,000, that were killed wounded or displaced. And of course, that includes civilians, involving women and children There has never been a figure stated on the collateral damage to Iraqi and Afghan property. Trillions? And we did all this to bring our form of democracy to the Middle East!?
Considering the statistics above, it is no wonder that people in the Middle East are alienated by foreign military forces. These are the circumstances that lead to the formation of ISIS - now being recognized as extremists and terrorists.
Nafeez Ahmed, a British author, an investigative journalist, and an internationalist security scholar writes in his version of "How the West Created the Islamic State": “Since 2003, Anglo/American power has secretly and openly coordinated direct and indirect support for Islamist terrorist groups, linked to Al-quaeda across the Middle East and North Africa. This ill-conceived patchwork of geostrategy is the legacy of the persistent influence of neoconservative ideology, motivated by longstanding but often contradictory ambitions to dominate regional oil resources, defend expansionist Israel, and in pursuit of these, re-draw the map of the Middle East." – [ http://www.secretsofthefed.com/west-cre ... mic-state/ ]
Leo Kurtenbach,
Saskatoon, SK
Phone: 306.652. 5129