The Islamic State forces are advancing on Baghdad. The principle effect of US bombing has been to add 6000 new recruits in a month. Have Western politicians never been to the Middle East and heard the people tell of their visceral hatred of Israel and now of the West? Drones and bombing are without honour and the West is beneath contempt in the eyes of the average Arab. (It is amazing that the people of the Western democracies cannot see that attack drones are cowardly and evil).
The latest reports from Baghdad suggest that the Iraqi army is demoralised and not even being paid. Baghdad will probably fall without "boots on the ground" but the West should be careful, every military intervention hardens and trains the opposition and eventually they might win.
The problem is obvious, our media were, just weeks ago, saying how IS was on the run because of the bombing campaign (Kurds advance to recapture dam etc). The West sounds like the old Soviet Union.
The West cannot face the truth: this world is diverse, we must respect other cultures within other nations. Most westerners believe that it is only a matter of time before the whole world lives a Western lifestyle. Westerners are behaving like mindless fanatics, they are blind to Islam, National Socialist China, Casteist India, Nationalist Russia, Deliberately Corrupt Africa. The whole west is only < 15% of the world's population! The average Westerner thinks that the difference between Western culture and Islam can be solved by allowing Them to have kebab stalls.
Every other news medium has called IS medieval. Is the Islamic State "medieval"?
Obviously IS cannot be truly medieval because "medieval" refers to a period between the Classical Era and the Renaissance. What journalists are saying is that IS is like a medieval state. In doing this they are focusing on the way that an alien religion controls the state. They are separating IS from US so that "we" can kill women and children with a clear conscience.
IS is most like a late eighteenth century state - public executions and a religious motivation coupled with the use of technology, Napoleon would have felt at home with their behaviour.
It is now so long since the West experienced war on its own soil that postmodern journalists are happy to produce narratives of good and evil to produce the sort of violence and threat that boosts their ratings and careers. Politicians are so beholden to journalists and the media that they act out their part in these stories. They act out their part despite advisers telling them that IS beheads westerners as an invitation to mount a Crusade, despite knowing that Crusaders will unite the Ummah.
The latest reports from Baghdad suggest that the Iraqi army is demoralised and not even being paid. Baghdad will probably fall without "boots on the ground" but the West should be careful, every military intervention hardens and trains the opposition and eventually they might win.
The problem is obvious, our media were, just weeks ago, saying how IS was on the run because of the bombing campaign (Kurds advance to recapture dam etc). The West sounds like the old Soviet Union.
The West cannot face the truth: this world is diverse, we must respect other cultures within other nations. Most westerners believe that it is only a matter of time before the whole world lives a Western lifestyle. Westerners are behaving like mindless fanatics, they are blind to Islam, National Socialist China, Casteist India, Nationalist Russia, Deliberately Corrupt Africa. The whole west is only < 15% of the world's population! The average Westerner thinks that the difference between Western culture and Islam can be solved by allowing Them to have kebab stalls.
Every other news medium has called IS medieval. Is the Islamic State "medieval"?
Obviously IS cannot be truly medieval because "medieval" refers to a period between the Classical Era and the Renaissance. What journalists are saying is that IS is like a medieval state. In doing this they are focusing on the way that an alien religion controls the state. They are separating IS from US so that "we" can kill women and children with a clear conscience.
IS is most like a late eighteenth century state - public executions and a religious motivation coupled with the use of technology, Napoleon would have felt at home with their behaviour.
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