The way I see it, it’s neither the Islamic State nor the Assad regime and neither Turkey nor Saudi Arabia, that are primarily responsible for 250,000 Syrian fatalities and millions of refugees; all the aforementioned parties to the civil war are mere pawns that don’t have a choice but to react in self-defense. The Syrian Jihad is the re-enactment of the same old gory and grisly drama that had been staged before in Afghanistan in the ‘80s. The whole cast of this new drama is different though – the Syrian theater of war has taken the place of Afghanistan; Turkey is now playing a similar role of the imperialist collaborator that the Pakistani security establishment used to play during the Afghan Jihad against the erstwhile Soviet Union; the Western-backed supposedly “moderate Syrian militants” have replaced the Afghan “freedom fighters” and the Northern Alliance of Ahmed Shah Massoud and Rashid Dostum; and the Islamic State has emerged as the new bogeyman a la the al-Qaeda and Taliban militants of the Afghan theater of Cold War.

Only the lead character in this grisly new drama of Syrian Jihad is still the same – the prime mover behind all the wars and conflicts since Vietnam and Afghanistan to Iraq, Libya and Syria. It’s unfortunate that we don’t learn any lessons from history at all, otherwise the telltale signs are there even for a lay person to acknowledge and draw the parallels.

Fighting wars through proxies allows the international power brokers the luxury of taking the plea of “plausible deniability” in their defense and at the same time they can shift all the blame for wrongdoing on the minor regional players like the Islamic State, the Syrian regime, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia et al. The Western powers’ culpability lies in the fact that because of them we cannot build a system of international justice based on sound principles of justice and fair play in which the violators can be punished for wrongdoing and the victims of injustice, tyranny and violence can be protected.

The neocolonial powers only pay a lip service to the cause of morality, justice and humanity in the international arena and their foreign policies are solely driven by the motive to protect the Western national interest without any regard for the human suffering in the remote regions of the world. Sometimes it isn’t even about protecting their “national interests,” bear in mind that the Western powers are not true democracies; they are plutocratic-oligarchies catering to the needs of their business interests that wield a disproportionate influence in the governmental decision-making and the formulation of public policy. Thus, the real core of “Western national interests” is mainly comprised of the Western corporate interests.

Notwithstanding, back in the ‘80s the Afghan “freedom fighters” did not spring up spontaneously out of nowhere, some powers financed, trained, armed and internationally legitimized those militants; how else such ragtag militants could have beaten back the super power of yore? One of the party involved in training and arming the Afghan “Mujahideen” was the Pakistani security establishment, which was the other? Then in 2011 in the wake of the “Arab Spring” in Libya that same “hidden hand” once again financed, trained, armed and internationally legitimized the Libyan militants by calling them pro-democracy, “armed” activists against the supposedly “brutal and tyrannical” anticolonial Qaddafi regime.

Similarly, in Syria those same powers once again had the audacity to finance, train, arm and internationally legitimize the Syrian militants; how else could peaceful and democratic protests have mutated into a full-blown armed insurrection? And even if those protests did mutate into an armed rebellion, left to their own resources the best such civilian protestors could have mustered was to get a few pistols, shotguns and rifles; where did they get all those machine gun-mounted pick-up trucks, rocket-propelled grenades and the US-made TOW antitank missiles?

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist or a military strategist to understand a simple fact that unarmed civilian population and even the ragtag militant outfits lack the wherewithal to fight against the organized and professional armed forces of a country equipped with artillery, armored vehicles, battle tanks and air force. Once again, one of the party involved in financing, training and arming the Syrian militants was a few regional players, which was the other? The common denominator in all those conflict zones like Afghanistan, Libya and Syria that are separated by a distance of thousands of kilometers and fall in different geographical regions is only one that pretends to be too powerless and handicapped to be of much help to the millions of Afghan and Syrian refugees and hundreds of thousands of Afghan, Iraqi and Syrian dead.

Especially, pertaining to conferring international legitimacy to an armed insurgency, like the Afghan “freedom struggle” of the yore or the so-called “moderate” Libyan and Syrian insurgencies of today, it is simply beyond the power of minor regional players and their nascent media with geographically and linguistically limited audience to cast such armed and brutal insurrections in a positive light in order to internationally legitimize them; only the Western mainstream media that has a global audience and which serves as the mouthpiece of the Western political establishments has perfected this game of legitimizing the absurd and selling the satans as saviors.
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Who trained,armed nd legitimised bH

Khd95:
Who trained,armed nd legitimised bH

Well, the same AngloZionist Empire.. Boko haram is a franchise of the same enemy. The Wahabi Saudi Arabia terrorist Organization backed by the Anglozionist empire..

Did anyone remember the role Hilary Clinton played in trying to legitimize Boko haram ?