Arabs Join In The Airstrikes Against ISIS – New War Expected To Last For “Years”

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The morning after the big attack, and the United States announces that not just 5 Arab nations, but 5  mostly Sunni nations joined us in the airstrikes against ISIS.  Or ISIL, or the Islamic State.

This is important, because ISIS is largely made up of Sunni fighters, and this is a religion-driven civil war the United States has inserted itself into.  So the U.S. has convinced Sunni nations to attack their Sunni brothers in ISIS, even while some wealthy interests in those same Sunni nations have been helping to fund the ISIS Army.

Is this cause to celebrate?  Perhaps.  I’ve been carping for weeks about the need for the U.S. to get out of the Middle East.  The need to let the Arabs use their oil money to fight their own wars.  I still feel that way, except now, at least, nations like Saudi Arabia are doing more than just sitting back and watching, while we carry water for them without being reimbursed.

Here’s a novel idea, why don’t we charge these wealthy Middle Eastern nations for our military services?    We could use some of the money to provide water to the Navajo People, 40% of whom lack potable water.   With adequate funds the City of Detroit could restore water to the thousands of poor and elderly who are being forced to go without, while cash-fat Arabs run around in their Bentleys and Rolls, drinking Dom and eating caviar.    Or are we supposed to be okay that this newest war is being carried on the backs of American taxpayers, some of whom can’t afford groceries, rent, and now even water?

It is at least hopeful, I suppose, that some of the Arab nations are taking part in the fight, even though a big question remains as to whether  the United States should be in this fight at all, a fight which the Pentagon says will likely go on for “years.”

How many years do you suppose?  Five?  Fifteen?  Thirty?   And at whose cost?   Ours, while we continue to have citizens who can’t pay their water bills?

Why isn’t anybody talking about this?

We learned nothing from our horrible experience in Vietnam.  It appears we know nothing about the British experience in the Middle East and India, either, as we are now apparently assuming their previous posture as the world’s foremost imperial empire,  pushing forward with the Bush Administration’s mad plan to democratize the Middle East.

It is, in all likelihood,  doomed to fail,  but there’s an election coming in November, and then another not long after that.  There is the ever-present fear that another terrorist attack on U.S. soil will bring the wrath of the Republicans crashing down on the Democratic Party machine, possibly devastating their chances at the polls – unless Obama and the Dems can say they did everything they possibly could, including getting involved in yet another war, to try and put down the terrorist threat.  It’s important to look strong, and anyway,  Americans love a good war.

When you’re out to save the world (and by that, I mean big oil), it’s important to try and understand why.    Five Arab nations might have been coerced into joining the United States in this first round of airstrikes, but I wouldn’t get too excited just yet.  This is going to continue on for some time.  Many of the American people are already weary of this experience, exhausted from fighting a war with no end in sight.

Notice how they never talk about an end-game?   Could that be because they don’t have one?

The real kicker, is that we wouldn’t be fighting ISIS now if George W. Bush and Dick Cheney hadn’t invaded Iraq, because Iraq has oil.  Great big pools of it.  Oil is multi-national not American, and Barack Obama has been left to try and clean up George W. Bush’s big oily mess, sending out our military to act as mercenaries for the oil-rich Arabs and the multi-national oil companies that buy,  process and deliver oil and oil-based products to people in Detroit and the rest of the free world, who increasingly can’t afford to turn on their water.

Finally, not that it matters and I’m  sure it was pure coincidence, but weren’t the airstrikes a perfect diversion, re-directing our focus away from the massive demonstrations on climate change leading up to the long-scheduled climate change summit conference in New York?

Between three and four-hundred thousand people filled the streets of New York on Sunday and came back a day later in a “flood” Wall Street protest, all leading up to the climate change summit at the UN.  Chances are it will be all but forgotten following Mr. Obama’s massive airstrikes.

With a hot new war to cover, where do you think the mainstream media’s focus will be?  But I’m sure it’s purely coincidental.

 

One thought on “Arabs Join In The Airstrikes Against ISIS – New War Expected To Last For “Years””

  1. It is amazing…

    We have money for war, but no money for Americans or our infrastructure.

    How is it that we’re footing the bill and not the Saudi’s?

    Where are all of the austerity bastards now? According to them, there’s no spending without off-setting them with cuts. Well… Why aren’t we billing the effing Saudi’s for this never-ending cycle of drama?

    The hawks in the Military Industrial Complex have been popping champagne corks since the decision was made to go to war again.

    Six years of this current administration, and more bloodletting is the only thing the GOP has agreed to reach across the aisle on.

    Crazy effing Americans…

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