The Show Must Go on:

The Co-Founders of ISIL Invade Northern Syria

Rasa - On Wednesday, August 24, a coalition of Turkey-backed rebels and Turkish military contingent invaded the border city of Jarabulus in Northern Syria on the pretext of fighting ISIL - ironically once lauded by the West as “Syrian rebels and freedom fighters.”

News ID: 422956

Date: 25 August 2016 - 23:52

RNA - Russian officials have issued a statement of concern. For good reasons, they are particularly worried about the escalation of Turkey’s fighting against Kurdish forces supported by US and Turkish fighter jets. Western officials, however, are a lot more upbeat. They have endorsed the illegal invasion as “in keeping with the goals and aims of the anti-ISIL coalition.” They also indicate that they are fine with Turkey attacking the Kurds, and wouldn’t complain about it.

This is not surprising. After all, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says what they like; that Syria will never "reach democracy" under the leadership of President Bashar al-Assad. Interesting enough, he made the remarks following a joint press conference with visiting US Vice President Joe Biden and hours after the Turkish military launched the operation on Syrian soil.

What this means is that Turkey, Saudi Arabia and other regional minions are still all duly vetted and approved by Washington and the Military-Industrial Complex to wage wars of aggression against their neighbours. They are free to instigate civil wars, escalate the Syria war, drive a wedge between neighbours, destroy the peaceful and mutually beneficial set of regional relations, and sow chaos among nations.

How else to explain that in line with the American-Israeli policy, ISIL’s strategy has been and still is to divide and rule, balkanization of Iraq and Syria, making the world forget about the Palestinian predicament, and sustain the cycle of death and destruction on which the American Military-Industrial Complex feasts?

It is precisely within this extant ideological frame that Official Washington has no intension to kill its ISIL proxy forces just yet: They are the War Party’s gift to the world (with a helping hand from Saudis and other financiers of extremism in the Persian Gulf). Besides, if the forces of “American Caliphate” are put to rest, the American Military-Industrial Complex will have no other excuses to bomb Syria and the rest of the region forever. There is no question whatsoever that this destructive machine is an innovative profit centre for the bankrupt American arms industry and the cult of air power.

All together, the Turkish-led and US-backed invasion of northern Syria is not a one-of-a-kind situation. There will be more invasions and certainly more conflicts in the coming years and decades. Washington, with less-than-stellar record, has already sold hundreds of billions of dollars in weaponry into the security forces in Turkey, UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia - the countries that fostered jihadism and Wahhabism as a creed and a movement.

So the future is bright, and the show must go on. There are equally staggering amounts of money to be made by feeding America’s fetish for bombers in those indispensable nations with all that money and so many ISIL and Al-Qaeda goons to harvest in American tanks and convoys.

The co-founders of ISIL might try to fool us and claim otherwise, but we have witnessed this sudden policy turnaround many times before - at least once in Kuwait when the US army stalled the Baathist army’s advance, and most recently in Iraq after ISIL captured Mosul, and now in Syria, where ISIL is losing territory to the allied forces of Syria, Iran, Russia and Hezbollah, and there is a need for "humanitarian intervention".

The pattern is all too familiar. Despite what you might have heard or read over the last few days, the recent goings on in Syria have virtually nothing to do with democracy, attacking the Kurds, or ISIL’s supposed desire to reconstruct the “Islamic caliphate”, and everything to do with the desperate Military-Industrial Complex, the mere extras, and the US need/desire to eke out a few more years of full spectrum dominance.

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