The New York Times has it correct. The Middle East is in the midst of power struggles. This is not entirely new. There have been groups since the beginning of time seeking to unseat any government, other than their holy men.
Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East, (click here) is embroiled in a struggle for power that has serious implications for the region and the security of the United States. The expanding conflict took an ominous step on Wednesday when Saudi Arabia said it launched airstrikes against rebels who have tightened their grip on Yemen.
Here are some concerns raised by the crisis in Yemen.
The New York Times also had an interesting article regarding the numerous power groups in the region. I'll see if I can find it.
I mean, if we are to understand the region and it's problems we need to be on the same page. Right?
This is a better understanding of the growing relationships of 'fighting men' in Iraq.
March 24, 2015
By Anne Barnard and Kareem Fhaim
...The progress in Tikrit (click here) raises the possibility of increased cooperation among the militias, the army and Kurdish pesh merga forces, including those battling ISIS nearby around the northeastern oil hub of Kirkuk. But it will not be as simple as just having those two sets of forces link up and march onward....
There is also the fact the United Nations has weighed in on genocide by Daesh. So, it is determined legally this organization is an enemy of nations. This isn't just a civil war in Syria, this is a regime of ruthless killers willing to wipe out generations of people with a methodology. An easy reference are the camps of the Nazis. The camps had a one way process and it was to eliminate the very presence of genetic material in the world. The same thing applies to Daesh.
This very finding of Daesh being genocidal should be giving everyone pause, including the young people seduced by the propaganda. This is a legal determination by the joint powers of Earth this is a regime that is a danger to everyone. Young people need to realize they are being seduced into servitude to this regime. They have no reason to believe this is a group of people in service to god. That is all lies and propaganda preying on the innocent.
March 19, 2015
By Nick Cumming Bruce
Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East, (click here) is embroiled in a struggle for power that has serious implications for the region and the security of the United States. The expanding conflict took an ominous step on Wednesday when Saudi Arabia said it launched airstrikes against rebels who have tightened their grip on Yemen.
Here are some concerns raised by the crisis in Yemen.
The New York Times also had an interesting article regarding the numerous power groups in the region. I'll see if I can find it.
I mean, if we are to understand the region and it's problems we need to be on the same page. Right?
This is a better understanding of the growing relationships of 'fighting men' in Iraq.
March 24, 2015
By Anne Barnard and Kareem Fhaim
...The progress in Tikrit (click here) raises the possibility of increased cooperation among the militias, the army and Kurdish pesh merga forces, including those battling ISIS nearby around the northeastern oil hub of Kirkuk. But it will not be as simple as just having those two sets of forces link up and march onward....
There is also the fact the United Nations has weighed in on genocide by Daesh. So, it is determined legally this organization is an enemy of nations. This isn't just a civil war in Syria, this is a regime of ruthless killers willing to wipe out generations of people with a methodology. An easy reference are the camps of the Nazis. The camps had a one way process and it was to eliminate the very presence of genetic material in the world. The same thing applies to Daesh.
This very finding of Daesh being genocidal should be giving everyone pause, including the young people seduced by the propaganda. This is a legal determination by the joint powers of Earth this is a regime that is a danger to everyone. Young people need to realize they are being seduced into servitude to this regime. They have no reason to believe this is a group of people in service to god. That is all lies and propaganda preying on the innocent.
March 19, 2015
By Nick Cumming Bruce
GENEVA — United Nations human rights investigators (click here) on Thursday leveled accusations of genocide
and war crimes at the Islamic State, citing evidence that the extremist
group’s fighters had sought to wipe out the Yazidi minority in Iraq.
The investigators reported that the pattern of attacks against the Yazidis, a religious minority living mostly in northern Iraq, pointed to the intention of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, “to destroy the Yazidi as a group.”
Although
the report states cautiously that the extremists “may have committed”
genocide, one of the most serious international crimes, Hanny Megally, a
senior United Nations rights official, told reporters in Geneva that “all the information points in that direction.”
Iraqi
government forces and affiliated militia groups also appear to have
committed war crimes, the United Nations said, pointing to what it
called credible accounts of scores of summary killings, torture,
abductions and indiscriminate attacks on civilians, including the use of
barrel bombs....
I am fairly sure the article was in the NYTimes yesterday. It was about the groups such as the Pakistani Taliban and the Afghan Taliban whom tend to be different groups. It also about their pledged allegiance to Daesh and it discussed Mullah Omar as a leader and al Qaeda as a presence. It drew many lines between the groups in the region that state they are a threat to any peace in the region.
That is the kind of detail I believe journalists should have regardless of their positions/jobs in the news media. The reason the public gets more upset than they should is because 'the element of fear' is lumped into one understanding without knowing the sincere lack of reality that exists. But, that is me and what I always hope to bring to the discussions about the USA's involvement in other regions of the world.
Today there is controversy over Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Saudi Arabia knows what it is doing. The USA is there for allies if needed, but, Saudi Arabia has a very sophisticated national defense. They are competent to handle their own issues and have in the past. We don't have to be big brother to a competent Saudi defense force.
If interested, this article begins to identify how fluid the existence of militant groups form and continue their variety of composition.
The Early Development of the Islamic State in Khorasan Network
Defining the ISK network is a difficult task. The network is dynamic and changes occur weekly, (In my opinion, changes can happen daily as well. The idea turns to the "war lord" understanding in the region. That entire war lord capacity of the people unwittingly causes them a great deal of problems and danger in their lives. But, it is the way they understand life.) if not more frequently. The creation, spread, and development of the ISK network is also clouded in rumor and speculation, fanned by informational wars being waged by Islamic State supporters, the Afghan and Pakistani government, and their respective agents. The number of militant groups operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the diversity of their agendas, and the shifting and at times unclear nature of their allegiances often obscures things even further. Thus, what follows is an attempt to describe the contours of the ISK network in Afghanistan and Pakistan as it currently exists. It does not claim to be comprehensive....
What occurred on September 11, 2001 is not what is occurring right now. That network of terrorists lead by Osama bin Laden to attack the USA is dead. It doesn't exist and the only remnants of it can be found in the leadership of Daesh and even that is questionable.
The leadership of Daesh are the old Saddam soldiers. They are a political party.
The Arab Baath party (click here) is a political movement that drives its program from an "Arab adaptation" of European ultra nationalist ideology mixed with a bad dose of interpretation of Arab Muslim history. The result is terror, wars, and racist and chauvinist policies in dealing with non-Arab ethnic groups living within the Arab World. Unfortunately, Iraq, that great cosmopolitan society ended up with a political party with such an ideology on the reign of power.
The reason they can be considered an enemy of the USA is really through the danger the pose to allies. The US military states there are members of Daesh with history back to Iraq in the Arabian Peninsula. I suppose, but, they have transformed into something very different. The relationship between Daesh and it's roots in al Qaeda is diffuse. I think it is.
Osama bin Laden has exposure to the USA. We were infidels. His hate of the USA was played out in wars. The people in Daesh are more sophisticated because of the internet, not because they earned their strips in study like bin Laden did. It is different. What isn't different is the propaganda provided to innocents willing to be bombs and killers for god. That propaganda is the same and I suppose to them the USA is still the great evil in the world.
It could easily be stated, the USA and it's war into Iraq actually facilitated Daesh. Daesh had our military equipment and I am fairly confident the soldiers in the beginning days of this "Death Regime" were trained by USA advisers in Iraq. So, the use of the USA in the Middle East is best left out of it. We cause more problems than we could ever solve.
I am fairly sure the article was in the NYTimes yesterday. It was about the groups such as the Pakistani Taliban and the Afghan Taliban whom tend to be different groups. It also about their pledged allegiance to Daesh and it discussed Mullah Omar as a leader and al Qaeda as a presence. It drew many lines between the groups in the region that state they are a threat to any peace in the region.
That is the kind of detail I believe journalists should have regardless of their positions/jobs in the news media. The reason the public gets more upset than they should is because 'the element of fear' is lumped into one understanding without knowing the sincere lack of reality that exists. But, that is me and what I always hope to bring to the discussions about the USA's involvement in other regions of the world.
Today there is controversy over Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Saudi Arabia knows what it is doing. The USA is there for allies if needed, but, Saudi Arabia has a very sophisticated national defense. They are competent to handle their own issues and have in the past. We don't have to be big brother to a competent Saudi defense force.
If interested, this article begins to identify how fluid the existence of militant groups form and continue their variety of composition.
The Early Development of the Islamic State in Khorasan Network
Defining the ISK network is a difficult task. The network is dynamic and changes occur weekly, (In my opinion, changes can happen daily as well. The idea turns to the "war lord" understanding in the region. That entire war lord capacity of the people unwittingly causes them a great deal of problems and danger in their lives. But, it is the way they understand life.) if not more frequently. The creation, spread, and development of the ISK network is also clouded in rumor and speculation, fanned by informational wars being waged by Islamic State supporters, the Afghan and Pakistani government, and their respective agents. The number of militant groups operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the diversity of their agendas, and the shifting and at times unclear nature of their allegiances often obscures things even further. Thus, what follows is an attempt to describe the contours of the ISK network in Afghanistan and Pakistan as it currently exists. It does not claim to be comprehensive....
What occurred on September 11, 2001 is not what is occurring right now. That network of terrorists lead by Osama bin Laden to attack the USA is dead. It doesn't exist and the only remnants of it can be found in the leadership of Daesh and even that is questionable.
The leadership of Daesh are the old Saddam soldiers. They are a political party.
The Arab Baath party (click here) is a political movement that drives its program from an "Arab adaptation" of European ultra nationalist ideology mixed with a bad dose of interpretation of Arab Muslim history. The result is terror, wars, and racist and chauvinist policies in dealing with non-Arab ethnic groups living within the Arab World. Unfortunately, Iraq, that great cosmopolitan society ended up with a political party with such an ideology on the reign of power.
The reason they can be considered an enemy of the USA is really through the danger the pose to allies. The US military states there are members of Daesh with history back to Iraq in the Arabian Peninsula. I suppose, but, they have transformed into something very different. The relationship between Daesh and it's roots in al Qaeda is diffuse. I think it is.
Osama bin Laden has exposure to the USA. We were infidels. His hate of the USA was played out in wars. The people in Daesh are more sophisticated because of the internet, not because they earned their strips in study like bin Laden did. It is different. What isn't different is the propaganda provided to innocents willing to be bombs and killers for god. That propaganda is the same and I suppose to them the USA is still the great evil in the world.
It could easily be stated, the USA and it's war into Iraq actually facilitated Daesh. Daesh had our military equipment and I am fairly confident the soldiers in the beginning days of this "Death Regime" were trained by USA advisers in Iraq. So, the use of the USA in the Middle East is best left out of it. We cause more problems than we could ever solve.
