We
have heard enough now from the warmongers on the supposed Right (Sen Lindsey
Graham, Abraham Hamilton, III, etc.) who are absolutely ecstatic about the
killing of Gen Soleimani and Commander al-Muhandis as evidence that America has
regained its tough guy persona. But we hope
they and those who share their view will reconsider this situation for the
following reasons.
First,
the groups now being targeted by American forces are those who actually did the
heavy lifting to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq:
Iraqi PMUs Defeated
ISIS in 2017
In order to properly
understand the Iraqi military and PMU’s reaction to this ham-fisted US attack
on Iraqi soil, it is important to understand who are the Iraqi People’s
Mobilization Units (PMUs), aka the Hash’d al-Shabbi, or ‘Hasheed’ for
short. This is the new national militia of Iraq and are the very same soldiers
who have fought and died against ISIS for ultimately defeating their terrorist
occupation in late 2017. The PMUs were formed in response to the emergence of
ISIS and the fall of Mosul in June 2014. The Grand Ayatollah Sistani issued a
fatwa in the summer of 2014, which called on all able-bodied men of fighting
age to form a coalition of national militias, roughly 130,000 strong, to fight
back against ISIS after it had routed the Iraq Army during ISIS’s summer
blitzkrieg which saw several key cities taken by the terrorist army, as they
headed dangerously close to the capital city Baghdad. It was because of
finiancial and military support from Iran at that time which allowed the PMUs
to be formed and armed, and deployed to fight ISIS that summer, as well as the
re-stocking of the Iraqi military arsenals which were depleted to dangerously
low levels at the time of the initial ISIS offensive. Clearly, it was Iran who
lifted up Baghdad in their hour of need, not the US whose principle
contribution was not on the ground where it really mattered but rather flying
air sorties which made little to no impact on ISIS advances between 2014 and
2016. It was only at the end of the ISIS wave in Iraq that the US began making
a noticeable impact, although they appeared to chalk up more civilian
casualties than anything else, during bombardments in places like Mosul, and
Raqqa in Syria.
--Patrick Henningsen, https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/01/03/trumps-fatal-mistake-in-iraq-and-beginning-of-end-for-us-occupation/
Second,
American/Western intelligence has once again been shown to be lying about
chemical weapons in Syria in 2018 that was used as a justification for the allied
bombing of one of Pres Assad’s military bases.
View the short video here:
But
we are, once again, being asked to trust those same sources that Gen Soleimani et
al. were plotting attacks against Americans that justified the attack that killed
them. Fool me once, . . .
Third,
consider the hypocrisy of the American justification. American and allied forces have killed tens of
thousands across the Middle East in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Afghanistan, many of
whom have been civilians. Resistance to such
barbarity would be quite natural. But
when one American contractor is killed and when Washington City is ‘embarrassed’
by the storming of its embassy in the colonialist Green Zone, it lashes out at
those who committed the acts as though they had done a far greater wrong than the
American Empire has. Hubris is always pursued
hard by a nemesis, but the wisemen of Washington think they are immune from the
natural order of things, being ‘chosen by God’ for world domination. The sycophantic embrace of Pres Trump at a campaign
rally for Evangelicals in Miami on Friday is proof enough that this is the
mindset of many on the ‘Religious Right’:
Furthermore,
Trump’s assassination
order may play well to his domestic voter base for his swagger and firepower,
but the chaos and destruction that is sure to follow will haunt his re-election
hopes at the end of this year.
The mayhem being
unleashed by the Trump administration needs to be placed in a wider context.
The US has been waging illegal wars and all manner of subterfuges in the Middle
East for decades. Its military presence in Iraq and Syria is illegal. Its
aggression towards Iran is illegal. Yet Washington turns the reality of its lawlessness
on its head with absurd self-proclamations of virtue.
The year ahead is
promising to bring clearer focus worldwide on how depraved and destructive the
United States has become. It alone stands as the nemesis of world peace. It is
a sign of how lawless this state has become when it can be associated with so
many potential simultaneous conflicts in every part of the world, not just the
Middle East.
Washington is
aggravating dangerous tensions with nuclear powers Russia and China. It is
bombing countries from Central Asia to Africa. It openly boasts about
overthrowing governments in Latin America. Even supposed European allies are
threatened with ruinous economic sanctions if they don’t toe Washington’s
dubious line.
With 2020 vision, US
rogue-state conduct is the deplorable common denominator threatening world
peace.
Laws are to no avail. The
US rules and kills with self-given immunity. The situation is getting worse.
State assassinations ordered by Trump and Netanyahu continue lawlessly,
unpunished. The world looks on as if it were a normality — bought propaganda
and corrupted media keep indoctrinating the western public with the idea that
that war is peace and right is wrong, and indeed – that war and killing is
profitable (the WaPo on several occasions), implying, ‘making our economy strong’.
--Peter Koenig, https://thesaker.is/america-is-ruled-by-a-murderer/
And
while Islam is not our choice of civilizational foundation stone, we will see
which is the stronger, more cohesive, and more long-lasting force: the vaunting egoism of the artificial, Puritan-Lincolnian, history-annihilating,
pseudo-culture of America that seeks only to overturn all proper authorities,
traditions, and cultures at home and abroad for the sake of exalting the paltry
individual and his sinful passions, or an actual, organic, deeply rooted, and historically
continuous culture, that of the 3,000-year-old Persian Empire:
“Iraq” and “Syria” are,
like most of the countries in the Islamic World, totally artificial states
engineered by European colonialists. Iran is a cohesive 3,000 year old nation
that has dominated the Middle East and Central Asia during the course of four
Persian Empires, with the first of them being founded around 500 BC by the
Achaemenids and the latest of them rising in 1500 AD under the Safavids. The
last of these empires, Safavid Iran, fused Iranian national identity with
Shi’ite spirituality in a way that cemented Iran’s role within the region as
the bastion of resistance against the Caliphate concept of Sunni Muslims – a
role that Iran began to play in earnest when, in the twelfth century, the Order
of Assassins fought the Caliphate while simultaneously defending their
territories – including those in present-day “Iraq” and “Syria” against the
Western Crusaders.
. . .
No man embodied and
epitomized the transnational and extra-territorial reach of Iran throughout the
Shi’ite regions of the Islamic World more than General Qassem Soleimani. By
assassinating Haj Qassem, Trump has declared war, not only on Iran, but also on
Shi’ite Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen. As in the case of the assassination of
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, this act of war is likely to catalyze an
international conflict that will eventually become global in its scope of
destruction. It is that crucible or fiery forge that allows the euphemistically
veiled “Global War on Terrorism” to reveal its true form as the Third World
War. This will prove, in both blood and treasure, to be the most costly war
that Americans have ever waged in the short history of the United States. It
may even prove to be for the United States what the invasion of Afghanistan was
for the Soviet Union – a harbinger of doom, terminal decline, and
disintegration. I wager that on the other side of this war, the proud Persian
people will still be standing in defiant defense of their 3,000 year old
civilization.
--Jason Reza Jorjani, https://www.geopolitica.ru/en/article/trumps-iran-war-begins
As
always, we hope the South will declare her opposition to the brutal policies of
Washington City rather than getting caught up in the fervor of phony, demonic
patriotism. That hasn’t worked out very
well in Afghanistan or Iraq, etc., and it won’t work out well in Iran, either.
--
Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England,
South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð,
unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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