tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679900905356691531.post3864620978817809737..comments2024-03-28T17:26:00.653-07:00Comments on ZZ's blog: US Imperialism’s Failed Tacticszoltan zigedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09376602245528691381noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679900905356691531.post-20146171592054409032015-10-23T04:10:30.028-07:002015-10-23T04:10:30.028-07:00Of course it is a "disaster" for everyon...Of course it is a "disaster" for everyone there. But for the US policy makers (and for the US in general) this is *NOT* a disaster. This is the intended result. They portray it as a disaster, "unintended consequences", "blowback", whatever, but that's for the press. Syria is finished for a while, it cannot put up any meaningful resistance against the empire. Actually it was almost finished but the Russians eventually showed up. Poor Syrians... While there are certain differences between the US and Russia, the latter is an imperialist power too... A bit better, it's bombing much more carefully etc.Balázshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08002660618727546660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679900905356691531.post-20132480590431117772015-10-21T12:11:48.031-07:002015-10-21T12:11:48.031-07:00By "disaster", I certainly mean a disast...By "disaster", I certainly mean a disaster in terms of the hundreds of thousands of lives harmed by a war sparked by imperialist intervention.<br /><br />How we character ISIS should be based less on how ISIS thinks or US planners think, but more on the objective role it plays.<br /><br />Objectively, ISIS's role is to destroy Arab/Islamic unity, to create artificial and broken states (not unlike that in the former Yugoslavia), to disrupt secular tendencies, and to foment war where peace is possible.<br /><br />Since this aids imperialism, it makes ISIS a creature of imperialism.<br /><br />I also received a note from our friends at Al-Jazeerah Peace Information Center us to take note of Israeli imperialism. Israel is a settler-colonial state like Apartheid South Africa, a state that has its own imperial designs. It is inseparable from US imperialism because it vitally needs US support to continue its aggressive program, but the US also needs Israel to serve as a policeman in the Middle East. It must be said that-- as with all imperialist alliances-- there are growing cracks in the relationship.zoltan zigedyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09376602245528691381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679900905356691531.post-90251711278269597632015-10-20T08:32:17.705-07:002015-10-20T08:32:17.705-07:00Hi Zoltan,
Unfortunately, IMHO, you've made a...Hi Zoltan,<br /><br />Unfortunately, IMHO, you've made a mistake in your analysis.<br /><br />"Most have shared their weapons with or joined the jihadists or left Syria with the thousands of immigrants. The half-billion-dollar program is a disaster"<br /><br />This was the intended result, not a disaster. Perhaps the US has hoped for a more marketable "opposition" but anyway didn't give a sh.t. The ISIS (or whatever it's called today) is the same mercenary force, nothing unexpected and by no means a "blowback", but intentional creation (with "plausible deniability"). This is actually a firm belief in the Middle East, most people regard ISIS as a US tool. Like the Taliban or the Khmer Rouge(!) were in the good old days. These are ragtag idiots, who can be (and are) discarded when they are not needed.<br /><br />This pathetic US bombing campaign is pathetic on purpose, 'cos it's for demonstration purposes only. Iraq started to get back some semblance of normalcy in recent years (together with a very pronounced Iranian alignment in foreign policy), so a small scale regime change was made. If you remember, the US set a precondition for any help: the resignation of its former puppet, Nouri Al Maliki.<br /><br />Rgards, B.Balázshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08002660618727546660noreply@blogger.com