Saddam Hussein shortly after his capture. Deutsch: 2003: Saddam Hussein nach seiner Festnahme Français : Saddam Hussein à sa capture Italiano: Saddam Hussein dopo la sua cattura Magyar: Saddam Husein nemsokkal az elfogása után Nederlands: Saddam Hoessein vlak na gevangenneming Polski: Saddam Husajn krótko po pojmaniu Português: Saddam, com barba e cabelos desgrenhados, logo após ter sido capturado em 2003. Українська: Саддам Хусейн після арешту (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Dr Alf has put forward an interesting article about the differences between how America and Turkey view ISIS and the issues of Muslim radicalization.
How we in the West deal with it requires clarity and an understanding of the situation, as it actually is, and where our long term interests lie.
A no-fly-zone over Syria would probably be viewed by the Russians as an act of war, so Turkey is not in a position to demand one without triggering World War 3.
Replacing the Assad regime might sound like a great idea but, as with Saddam Hussein, the alternative has proved very much worse, because under Hussein’s regime, which the US and the UK once supported, ISIS would have been stopped from ever happening.
Our military leaders, in Britain, have already apparently told the Government to stop Saudi Arabia and Qatar from funding ISIS. The response has allegedly been that it is all down to wealthy individuals, which is clearly not true because the acquisition of American military hardware on such a scale requires massive logistical expertise and Government sanction.
The UK, through British Aerospace Defense Systems, has in Saudi Arabia a puppet regime to which it exports vast amounts of military equipment, and in Qatar, it has the same. Thus, we, in the UK, profit from ISIS’s financial backers, whilst at the same time wanting to crush ISIS, who are now out of control, and in charge of oilfields and other even greater treasures, we spent much blood and toil to seize.
America always wanted a “Balkanized” Iraq, with its $61 trillion USD’s worth of oil, plus control over whatever it is that lies in the museum in Baghdad, the first building they occupied after the toppling of Saddam Hussein.
Turkey wants a rebuilt Ottoman Empire, having lost the first one in 1918.
ISIS is one problem; radicalized Islam is another.
Dealing with ISIS requires that Western governments stop being squeamish and take firm action; here is a proposed “strawman” for Barack Obama, David Cameron, and their allies:
1) Eliminate any “private funders'” of ISIS, as a message to all the others.
2) Threaten to replace the Saudi and Qatari regimes with regimes run by people who buy military hardware and support our best national interests.
3) As part of 2, stop ISIS funding.
4) Surround the area marked out by ISIS, and declare everything within it a “free fire zone”.
Deploy killer robots and a new version of Operation Arclight with B52s to lay waste the obvious areas of infestation, using thermobaric weapons, with the power of Hiroshima style nuclear bombs to eliminate what is there.
Cleanse the areas with napalm and use robots to be the “boots on the ground”.
5) Put a bounty on the heads of those that remain, sufficiently attractive to encourage ex-Blackwater and Executive Outcomes contractors and the UK’s own recently sacked soldiers to re-enlist, as private contractors, to track down and terminate anyone left. {Sadly, many first rate soldiers were sacked as part of excessive austerity policies by David Cameron’s government}
6) This will probably involve collateral damage; but there were casualties of 775,000 in Iraq, plus 1 million dead children because of sanctions, damaged water supplies, and damaged hospitals, not to mention deformities caused by uranium tipped armor piercing ammunition. In the scheme of things, this would probably be a small price to pay.
7) Take Erdogan in Turkey to one side, and remind him of who controls his fate, and that his dreams of an Ottoman Empire are for the history books.
8) Suspend the building of any new mosques anywhere in the West, banning the burqua and the niquab.
9) Close down and demolish any existing mosques, where treason and sedition or Jihad has been preached.
10) Deport all inflammatory imans, who are not from the UK. Otherwise, make widespread use of internment.
11) Apply the UK’s Treason Act 1318 to all Muslims calling for Caliphates, Jihad or acts of terror.
12) Authorize the elimination of any person from the West who goes to Syria or Iraq, with murderous intent.
13) Make the police do their job by arresting all Muslims calling for Jihad, which is nothing less than incitement to murder.
14) Call in all Muslim leaders and give them the stern word that religious freedom is one thing but giving licence for people to undermine the country is another.
This, with a clear understanding that citizenship and the legal right to remain for Muslims who have come from elsewhere, is contingent on them integrating and following the laws of the land.
If these leaders balk at this, or there is trouble, then pick a number of them and deport them, along with any other troublemakers. Otherwise, make widespread use of internment.
15) Come to a private arrangement with the Russians vis-a-vis Syria, the Assad regime and actions against ISIS in Syria that does not involve an officially sanctioned no fly zone.
If any of these proposed actions seem hard, imagine the response of the US or the UK if special services personnel were captured and beheaded, like the journalists and aide workers. It is time to take the gloves-off and stop pandering to public opinion.
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