It’s a daisy chain of horrific violence, all
of which can be traced directly back to a decision made by a Democratic
president and his National Security Advisor to arm, train, and send out into the world a new army
of radical jihadis, in order to entice the godless communists into an historic
trap in Afghanistan. The actors from that drama were hired again last year by another Democratic president in
Libya, and are being remobilized today in Syria – even as the blowback from their comrades in Mali becomes virtually instantaneous.
No force in the world has done more than the government of the United States to create a radical global jihad army.
It’s a blowback world.
Some excerpts:
Today:
“Algeria’s interior minister, Daho Ould
Kablia, said that the seizure of the gas field had been overseen by Mokhtar
Belmokhtar, an Algerian who fought Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the
1980s and has reportedly established his own group in the Sahara after
falling out with other local Qaeda leaders.”1 (New York Times)
Yesterday
“But this intervention is itself the consequence of another. The Libyan war is frequently
touted as a success story for liberal interventionism. Yet the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi’s dictatorship had
consequences that Western intelligence services probably never even bothered to
imagine. Tuaregs – who
traditionally hailed from northern Mali – made up a large portion of his army. When Gaddafi was ejected from power,
they returned to their homeland: sometimes forcibly so as black Africans came
under attack in post-Gaddafi Libya, an uncomfortable fact largely ignored by
the Western media.
“But the Libyan war was seen as a success, too; and here we are now engaging
with its catastrophic blowback. … The price of Western interventions
may often be ignored by our media, but it is still paid nonetheless.
“It is the
responsibility of all of us to scrutinise what our governments do in our name; if we cannot learn that from Iraq,
Afghanistan and Libya, then it is hopeless.”2 (The Independent)
The
Day Before Yesterday
“Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, the Libyan rebel leader, has said jihadists who fought against
allied troops in Iraq are on the front lines of the battle against Muammar
Gaddafi's regime. Mr al-Hasidi admitted he had earlier fought against ‘the foreign invasion’ in Afghanistan …
