Raqqa Destroyed, Daeshwas Bogeyman Encouraged by Western Powers

The current propaganda campaign in the US and western media of the supposed liberation of the Syrian city of Raqqa by mainly Kurdish forces supported by air strikes and weapons by the Americans, is actually nothing but a clumsy attempt by Washington to have an illegal foothold on Syrian soil through the largely destroyed city which the Takfiri terrorists had called the capital of their spurious caliphate.

Here we present you an analysis in this regard by journalist Eric Margolis titled “Raqqa Destroyed, Daesh was a Bogeyman Encouraged by Western Powers.”

Daesh or the so-called Islamic State was primarily a bogeyman encouraged by the western powers. I’ve been saying this for the last four years.

I asserted, as a former soldier and war correspondent, that Daesh would collapse like a wet paper bag if proper ground forces attacked their strongholds in Syria and Iraq. Last week, the local satraps of the US and the West finally took action and stormed the last Daesh stronghold at Raqqa. To no surprise, Daesh put up almost no resistance and ran for its miserable life.

The much-dreaded Daesh was never more than a bunch of hooligans and fanatics who were as militarily effective as the medieval Children’s Crusade.

In the West, Daesh was blown up by media and governments into a giant monster that was coming to cut the throats of honest folk in the suburbs.

Daesh did stage some very bloody and grisly attacks – that’s what put it on the map. But none of them posed any mortal threat or really endangered European or American national security. In fact, the primary target of Daesh attacks has been Shi’a Muslims in Syria and Iraq.

Many of the Daesh attacks in North America and Europe were done by mentally deranged individuals or were initiated by under-cover government provocateurs, such as the 1993 bombing of New York’s World Trade Center. Daesh was notorious for falsely taking credit for attacks it did not commit.

Other ‘lone wolf’ attacks were made by persons of West Asian or North African origin driven to revenge after watching the destruction by the US and its allies of substantial parts of their region. Think Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Afghanistan, parts of Pakistan, and the murderous brutality of Egypt’s-US backed regime.

Daesh appears to have been shaped by western intelligence in an effort to duplicate its success with the Afghan mujahidin in the mid 1980’s that helped defeat the Soviet Union. CIA, Pakistani and Saudi intelligence, and Britain’s MI-6 recruited some 100,000 volunteers from across the Muslim world to wage jihad in Afghanistan.

The western powers, led by the US, sought to emulate this success in Syria by unleashing armies of mercenaries, disaffected, unemployed youth, and religious primitives against the independent-minded government of President Bashar Assad.  The plan nearly worked – at least until Russia, Iran, and Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement intervened and reversed the tide of battle.

The canard promoted in the West that Daesh was a dire military threat was always a big joke. I said so on one TV program and was promptly banned from the station. I’m also the miscreant who insisted that Iraq never had weapons of mass destruction and was consequently blacklisted by a major cable TV news network.

The CIA cobbled together a force of Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, who were directed, armed, equipped and financed by Washington. Shades of the British Empire’s native troops under white officers.

Raqqa and Mosul were so close to western forces that they were merely a taxi ride away. But it took three years and much token bombing of the desert before a decisive move was made against Daesh. Once the US-led campaign against Damascus failed, the crazies ofDaesh were no longer of any use so they were marked for death.

Like Fallujah in Iraq and Mosul, Raqqa was flattened by US air power, a stark message to those who would defy the American Raj. The ruins of Raqqa, the Daesh capital, were occupied by US-led forces. This historic déjà vu recalled the dramatic defeat by British Imperial forces at Omdurman in September 1898 of Sudan’s Khalifa and his dervish army.

The remnants of Daesh had melted into the Euphrates Valley and the desert. Anti-western Daesh supporters still cluster in Europe’s urban ghettos and will cause occasional mayhem. A few high-profile attacks on civilians may be expected to show that Daeshis still alive. But none of this is likely to influence the course of events.

The Daesh bogeyman was very useful for the western powers. It justified deeper military involvement in West Asia, higher arms budgets, scared people into voting for rightwing parties, and gave police more powers. By contrast, these pseudoMuslims brought misery, fear on the Islamic world. We are very well rid of them. And it’s about time.

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