Democrats helped cultivate the barbarism of Daesh (2)

Both the U.S. political parties, despite their blaming of each other are criminally involved in the breeding of terrorists and spread of terrorism in order to destabilize the Muslim World.

The following is the second and concluding part of an interesting article on this subject for the ‘Antiwar’ site by journalist Jonathan Cook, titled: “Democrats helped cultivate the barbarism of Daesh”.

Donald Trump now appears to be ending part of that policy. He may be doing so for the wrong reasons. But very belatedly – and possibly only temporarily – he is seeking to close a small chapter in a horrifying story of western-sponsored barbarism in West Asia, one intimately tied to the creation of Daesh.

What of the supposed concerns of Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Party under whose watch the barbarism in Syria took place. They should have no credibility on the matter to begin with.

But their claims that Trump has “no plan to deal with a potential revival of Daesh in West Asia” is a giant red herring they are viciously slapping us in the face with in the hope the spray of seawater blinds us.

First, Washington sowed the seeds of terrorism by engineering a vacuum in Syria that Daesh – or something very like it – was inevitably going to fill. Then, it allowed those seeds to flourish by assisting its Persian Gulf allies in showering fighters in Syria with money and arms that came with only one string attached – a commitment to a so-called jihadist ideology inspired by Saudi Wahhabism.

Daesh was made in Washington as much as it was in Riyadh. For that reason, the only certain strategy for preventing the revival of this macabrely murderous terrorist outfit is preventing the U.S. and the Persian Gulf states from interfering in Syria again.

Now, with the Syrian army in charge of Syrian territory, there will be no vacuum for Daesh to fill. The terrorists’ state-building project is now unrealizable, at least in Syria. Daesh will continue to wither, as it would have done years before if the U.S. and its Persian Gulf allies had not fueled it in a proxy war they knew could not be won.

The same lesson can be drawn by looking at the experience of the Syrian Kurds. The Rojava fiefdom they managed to carve out in northern Syria during the war survived till now only because of continuing U.S. military support. With a U.S. departure, and the Kurds too weak to maintain their improvised statelet, a vacuum was again created that this time has risked sucking in the Turkish army, which fears a base for Kurdish nationalism on its doorstep.

The Syrian Kurds’ predicament is simple: face a takeover by Turkey or seek President Assad’s protection to foil Turkish ambitions. The best hope for the Kurds looks to be the Syrian army’s return, filling the vacuum and regaining a chance of long-term stability.

That could have been the case for all of Syria many tens of thousands of deaths ago. Whatever the corporate media suggest, those deaths were lost not in a failed battle for supposed freedom, which, even if it was an early aspiration for some fighters, quickly became a goal that was impossible for them to realize. No, those deaths were entirely pointless. They were sacrificed by a western military-industrial complex in a U.S.-Saudi Great Game that dragged on for many years after everyone knew it was doomed.

Nancy Pelosi’s purported worries about Daesh reviving because of Trump’s Syria withdrawal are simply crocodile fears. If she is really so worried about Daesh, then why did she and other senior Democrats stand silently by as the U.S. under President Barack Obama spent years spawning, cultivating and financing Daesh to destroy Syria, a state that was best placed to serve as a bulwark against the head-chopping terrorists?

Tulsi Gabbard calls The New York Times and CNN — the hosts of the debate — "completely despicable" for alleging she is a Russian asset and Assad apologist.

Pelosi and the Democratic leadership’s bad faith – and that of the corporate media – are revealed in their ongoing efforts to silence and smear Tulsi Gabbard, the Democratic Party’s only candidate for the presidential nomination who has pointed out the harsh political realities in Syria, and tried to expose their years of lies.

Pelosi and most of the Democratic leadership don’t care about Syria, or its population’s welfare. They don’t care about either the legitimate government of President Assad, or the Daesh terrorists.

They care only about the maintenance and expansion of American power – and the personal wealth and influence it continues to bestow on them.

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