The threat of a civil-ethnic-religious war in
Iraq is too imminent. Self-interest and national-chauvinism is the prime
motive of the governments/terrorist groups involved in the conflict,
which continues to edge toward civil war. At least four
terrorist groups can be identified: first and foremost the government
of the United States, then the Iraqi terrorist government, then ISIS and
finally the Iranian government which the least terrorist of all of
them.
These governments that are willing to engage in the
conflict are going to do so with absolute disregard for human lives and
the genocide which may emerge in Iraq once again. The same American
government which provided WMD to Saddam Hussein to kill millions of
Iraqi Kurds and Iranians and then twice invaded Iraq is now offering to
help the Iraqi people and government.
Each time Obama mentions
the phrase “Iraqi people” in the following speech one can replace that
with words such as “OIL” and “CONTROL” and … to make sense of the
speech. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/19/remarks-president-situation-iraq
(Also notice that the Iraqi people are often mentioned in the same
breath as “American interests,” as if the former is not worth
considering on its own terms.)
The language and actions adopted
by these players is an indication of their intentions. The Saudi
government constantly talk about things such as “regional player” and
“actors in the scenario”.
Americans who started the war have
as much hostility for Shia’at as they do for the Sunnis. Saudis like to
pretend ignorance to this fact.
Sheikh Yusef al-Qaradawi,
chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, has said that
ISIS is a revolutionary force and has asked Iraqi people to help them
liberate Iraq. (Ayatollah) Sistani has asked the Shia’ats to take up
arms against ISIS. Unlike Sistani some other Shia’at clerics are using
language which is reminiscent of historical sectarian feuds. Many
elements in Tehran who called for an Iranian invasion of Iraq then are
again calling for invasion.
The neocons in the U.S. regime and
the ultra-right wing elements of the Iranian regime ideologically have a
lot in common. They both have absolutely no regard for the cost of
human lives in Iraq. Their absolute and staunch insistence on
non-negotiation policy between Iran and the U.S. is an indication of
their long-standing policies. Some ultra-right wing commanders of the
Sepah (Revolutionary Guard) in Iran have made remarks to that effect in
the past few days. The neocons’ long-standing policy of world domination
by imperialist corporate capitalists also prevents them from engaging
in rapprochement with Iran. And the “Revolutionary Guard” need a pseudo
enemy to tell the Iranian people that the entire McFarlane Affair did
not take place and they have always been the enemy of U.S. and the
United States probably never sold any weapons to Iran during the
8-year-long Iran-Iraq war.
However, Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei
himself has taken a different approach which is basically consistent
with his views on the so-called “war on terror.” Khamenei as the
dictator of Iran understands that he has to look into the IRI’s
long-term interests. He understands that instability in the region will
not serve the interests of the IRI. When Iraq invaded Kuwait, and even
Syria at that time participated in the American coalition warfare to
invade Iraq, Khamenei decided to declare neutrality in that war. Despite
the fact that even at that time many had called Saddam the Khalid ibn
al-Walid of our time and had called for a partnership. During the
invasion of Iraq in 2003, Khamenei once again declared neutrality
despite the fact that many wanted to join the Bush-Cheney crime family
and the war.
ISIS and their regional and international
supporters crave a full Iranian invasion of Iraq. The American
involvement has always been accompanied with major cataclysmic
catastrophes. Even in Bosnia where American troops had gone to stop the
genocide, they ended up “accidentally” wiping out an entire village of
Bosnians whom they had supposedly gone there to protect. Much like the
US “surgical” drone strike which end up killing dozens of people who
were not intended to be killed. (As if a doctor in the operating room
using a surgical knife would end up killing a bunch of hospital visitors
with his knife!) America has shown time and time again that they cannot
be trusted even with humanitarian interventions in cases of genocide.
If the Americans end up actually preventing a genocide; it’d be a
miracle. (However since miracles are unreal and imaginary phenomena that
is very unlikely to happen.)
With the exception of Saudi
Arabia and their cronies, most of the involved elements are aware that
stopping the conflict from spreading in the region would help them. If
the Saudis and their cronies would look at the region with little bit of
foresight and historical perspective, they would know that they are
shooting themselves in the foot. Just like the Americans who funded and
helped al-Qaida in Afghanistan in the 80s, the Saudi-funded ISIS will
hunt them in the near future.
Then again, Iran has not invaded
any other country in the past one hundred years and that is an
important element in this equation. Regional and global ISIS supporters
are aware of this fact, but hope for a full Iranian intervention. This
might be the beginning of an endless Shia’at-Sunni conflict and Iran is
the missing piece for both the Saudis and Americans.
If the
Saudis and others would realize their long term interests, they’d
withdraw all their direct and indirect support from ISIS. If they do
not withdraw their support ISIS will become their enemies someday. In
the midst of these you can see that none of these powers have any regard
for the human beings who will be killed in Iraq. We the people are
empowered to do something.
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