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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMoJo: ISIS Is America's Legacy in Iraq
ISIS Is America's Legacy in IraqHow 13 years of the War on Terror led to the Islamic State.
Whatever your politics, you're not likely to feel great about America right now. After all, there's Ferguson (the whole world was watching!), an increasingly unpopular president, a Congress whose approval ratings make the president look like a rock star, rising poverty, weakening wages, and a growing inequality gap just to start what could be a long list. Abroad, from Libya and Ukraine to Iraq and the South China Sea, nothing has been coming up roses for the US Polls reflect a general American gloom, with 71% of the public claiming the country is "on the wrong track." We have the look of a superpower down on our luck.
What Americans have needed is a little pick-me-up to make us feel better, to make us, in fact, feel distinctly good. Certainly, what official Washington has needed in tough times is a bona fide enemy so darn evil, so brutal, so barbaric, so inhuman that, by contrast, we might know just how exceptional, how truly necessary to this planet we really are.
In the nick of time, riding to the rescue comes something new under the sun: the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), recently renamed Islamic State (IS). It's a group so extreme that even al-Qaeda rejected it, so brutal that it's brought back crucifixion, beheading, waterboarding, and amputation, so fanatical that it's ready to persecute any religious group within range of its weapons, so grimly beyond morality that it's made the beheading of an innocent American a global propaganda phenomenon. If you've got a label that's really, really bad like genocide or ethnic cleansing, you can probably apply it to ISIS's actions.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/isis-americas-legacy-iraq
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MoJo: ISIS Is America's Legacy in Iraq (Original Post)
99th_Monkey
Sep 2014
OP
Yup, but you won't hear much from this from the MSM, whose insight is usually worthless
still_one
Sep 2014
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still_one
(92,325 posts)1. Yup, but you won't hear much from this from the MSM, whose insight is usually worthless
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)4. I just checked CNN and MSNBC
CNN is ALL about the leaked nude photos (hours long "special"
and MSNBC is about life in US prisons (i guess us commoners all need to be prepared?).
riverbendviewgal
(4,253 posts)2. I agree
Bush the W and his entourage created a world that is destined to have perpetual war. Good business for the Cheneys.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)3. War On Terror Redux.
Cheney and Rumsfeld got it wrong the first time so we had to have a do over.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)5. Yes in the USA we handsomely reward our war criminals & torturers.
What better way to honor them than perpetual ME wars.
They must be so thrilled that Obama has ISIS, a new ME boogie man, to deal with.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)7. Recommend Read....