First Known Western Journalist To Embed With ISIS Blames Bush For Group’s Existence -- CBS
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — The first known Western journalist to have embedded with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria terror group blames former President George W. Bush for its existence.
German journalist Jürgen Todenhöfer, 74, spent ten days with the terror group in Mosul. Speaking with the German website TZ, Todenhöfer said that the U.S. air campaign against ISIS will have little effect on the group.
“With every bomb that is dropped and hits a civilian, the number of terrorists increases,” he said.
Todenhöfer pointed the finger at Bush for the rise of ISIS.
“Without George W. Bush’s Iraq war, there would be no IS,” he said.
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My Comment: Here we go again ... blame President Bush for the chaos and mayhem that exists in the Middle East .... even though chaos and mayhem has existed in the Middle East for .... let me think .... oh yeah .... for centuries if not longer. The lesson that should be learned is that the Middle East is a region that foreign powers should be very reluctant to become involved in .... President Bush and his advisers in 2003 believed otherwise ... they pursued a policy expecting victory and success .... but everyone's worse fears have become today's reality .... a religious sectarian war ... and for that naive policy it has cost the U.S. thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars. But this sectarian/religious war has been ongoing since the birth of Islam .... and long after we are all gone .... this conflict will still be raging.
The same reasons why Dubya Dubya Me Too's Daddy, and his Admin, stopped at defeating Iraq and didn't proceed with toppling Saddam,
ReplyDeleteAre the reasons why Iraq/Syria etc are blowing up today.
Cheney and Rumsfield said at the time, that Sectarian divisions and the change in the ballance of power would blow up the Region.
A little more than a decade later, with dreams of spouting oil wells, wealth and Enduring Bases, they claimed that there were no divisions between the Kurds, Sunni and Shia.
As Feith infamously said:
"Every now and the , the US needs to pick up some shitty little country, and throw it up against the wall, just to prove to the rest of the world, that it needs business!"
Works when it's Panema, Grenada, Serbia, the Dominican Republic or Haiti,
Not so much when it's the Middle East.
Even Lebanon kicked their asses.
What's crazy is I wasn't even referring to what you wrote. Was speaking in general.
DeleteWhat are you talking about the USA started all the violence in the middle east LOL. I can't count how many people at my university blame the US for " all the problems" in the middle east. BTW these are the morons who think 911 is a government / cia conspiracy ha
ReplyDeleteYeah, Nick, it would help if you read what I wrote, rather than making sh!t up, otherwise, you just come across as another anal fedding American Exceptionalist.
DeleteMiddle East stability is finely balanced, since the Marmeluke's. Any change, causes a trophic cascade, with unintended consequences and sets up completely new balances of power, and those changes take three or more generations to shake out.
Yeah Jay, you just come across as a leftist.
ReplyDeleteIf I change the names of the countries and abstract it politics like they do in mathematics and engineering, could not tell which way is up.
I know what you are going to say before you say it.
So true about needing three generations to shake it out. We are all prisoners of what our descendents did.
ReplyDeleteAfter listening to all of the finger pointing one would start to believe that Bush is at fault for the Bronze Age collapse, the Amorite migration, the Hittites drive by sacking of Babylonia, the skirmishing between the Byzantines and Sassanids, and the Diadochi wars.
ReplyDeleteI think this constant blame game is childish Bullsh*t, just like calling everybody they don't like a Nazi. But when ever I try to argue against all this I get called out for not having any fancy Edumacation!
WNU
ReplyDeleteI'll just get time to reverse its' flow and the chain of causality will be correct.
After all physicists say there really be no bias in the flow of time.
But I got what you meant. I just wish I was at the point that I could make the mistake speaking Russia and that you make with English.
Golden rule here Nick is to never take anything personal. If I did .... I would have committed suicide a long time ago. :)
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