In a most depressive desperate effort to consolidate a
Middle-Eastern public opinion in support of his plans to fight ISIL*, Obama
made two crucial mistakes:
1) He
tried to press the cultural/religious button using statements like “We don’t have anything against Islam….”
or “I understand quit well the teachings
of Islam….”; and
2) he
mentioned the Yemen and Somalia examples as “an
American success”!
He, and his close advisors, didn’t
foresee how mediocre such an
approach will sound; because the Arab/Muslim populations (being a majority in the Middle-East)
though fearing the spread of a well organised well financed well equipped
Islamic State, they have also seen the outcome of all types of western
intervention (humanitarian
aiding or belligerent gaming, training or invading) from
Afghanistan and Pakistan to Iraq and Lebanon… etc.
Obviously Yemen and Somalia aren’t any different. Look
what they’ve left behind!
Ahmed ELNAHAS – Castelfiorentino, September 11th
2014.
*Even changing
the acronyms from ISIS (Islamic
State in Iraq and Syria) to ISIL (Islamic
State in Iraq and the Levant) is a clear evidence of a total Western under-estimation of the Arab
Culture and history; because the term “Levant” was always considered,
since the 11th all through the 19th centuries, the only
geo-political definition of the “Fertile Crescent” (Palestine,
Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Iraq) commonly known as AsSham. And as such the term
brings back alive some very bad memories (The Sykes-Picot accords and the Paris Peace
Conference of 1919).
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