ISIS appearance adds to a string of terror to the world. Why is ISIS so free to act? Is there a "global conspiracy" that deliberately designs the world's panic?
Syrian crisis that has lasted for 5 years seems to be more complicated and prolonged. In the sense, as long as ISIS still studded with funds and weapons, the peace will never be come true there. Moreover, if the U.S. and its Western allies remain half-hearted as it is now.
I believe, in the terms of weaponry and personnel, United States only takes a few days to finish ISIS. Remember, in the 1967 war, Israel was alone, but it was able to make Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon to its knees within 6 days. The larger countries -- in terms of population and territory -- were even forced to give up some of their land to Israel. In that war, the Israeli war machines were almost entirely made in America.
Then, when the United States entered directly, large-scale massacres against the Iraqi army and the civilian population was inevitable. Imagine this, operation Desert Storm to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait, which lasted from January 17 to 28 February 1991, causing more than 100 thousand people were killed, almost all the victims killed were soldiers and Iraqi civilians. When this bloody operation carried out, President of Iraq at the time -- Saddam Hussein -- was in his heyday, as well as the military behind him. He could only be moping when he saw his military forces was destroyed.
So, when the ISIS now seems so powerful in the face of the West, I think it's because there's a global conspiracy behind it, as had happened in Afghanistan when it was occupied by the Soviet Union. At that time, in the 1980s, the West gave financial support and weapons on a large scale to help the Mujahideen against Soviet forces.
In the context of Syria, the global conspiracy started with the Arab Spring, a huge wave of pro-democracy movement in the Arab world that could topple the dictatorship in Tunisia and Egypt. The movement also builds confidence which is widespread throughout the world : that all authoritarian regimes in the Middle East will soon collapse.
United States and its allies see the movement as an opportunity to destroy the power of Russia's ally that still reigns in Syria, the Ba'ath socialist party under the leadership of president Bashar al-Assad. The U.S. then conspiring with Turkey to train and equip the pro-democracy rebels and the moderate Islam in Syria. Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had already admitted it openly, that at first, the rebel forces in Syria funded by the United States.
Great military pressure on the rebels was eventually pushed Bashar -- who in fact he is a secular and Western-educated -- to raise Shia solidarity to gain support from Iran.
In a further development, it turns out, the West's help is misplaced. As a result, anti-democratic radical rebel forces even getting bigger. Among these is the Al-Nusra Front or Jabhat al-Nusra, which now becomes an important part of ISIS forces. This extreme group in intelligence operations likened as a trained agent who denies its operator.
Now Turkey itself even in a difficult position, in a sense, Turkey worries the act of ISIS can undermine its country's security, especially Turkey now also becomes a favorite transit region for those who are going to or away from Syria.
But on the other hand, Turkey benefited from the animosity between ISIS with the Kurds. A number of Kurdish regions has even been occupied by ISIS. Of course this makes Turkey happy because during the Kurdish uprising, thousands of soldiers and civilians Turkey have been killed beaten by Kurdish bullets and bombs. This fact makes Turkish government see that the biggest security threat to the country is the armed uprising of Kurds.
Turkey also sees, there are petrodollar and political rulers in the Arab world behind ISIS. They support ISIS as they aim to liberate Iraq and Syria from the grip of the Shiites, because they themselves are Sunni. This is why Turkey's current Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mevlut Cavusoglu is so insistent that ISIS issue should be resolved through cooperation with Middle East countries, which are also the main markets of his country.
Meanwhile pressure is also increasingly hard for Turkey to be more serious in preventing people who want to cross to Syria. UN security council data through the monitoring team of the UN's sanction implementation which was released late last year said that about 15,000 people from over 80 countries entered Syria and Iraq fought alongside ISIS via Turkey.
Turkey also allegedly bought oil from ISIS and becomes a pathway for the smuggling of weapons and war equipment. Hoshyar Zebari -- Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Iraq -- has revealed that ISIS controls a number of oil fields in Syria and Iraq. Oil from the fields are then smuggled through land brokered by Turkey.
To relieve the pressure from international community, Turkish government now do seems to be more serious in dealing with the border crossers, including checks on all the goods which they bring from or to Syria. But, as long as Kurdish rebels still undermines the Turkey security and uses Syria as its military base, then Turkey will still prefer supporting ISIS, because the ISIS attacks against Kurdish military camps give more sense of security to Turkey.
Thus, it's impossible for the US and its Western allies have different views with Turkey, related to the involvement of authorities in oil-rich countries in ISIS. Together with Turkey, the United States see the economic and diplomatic relations with these countries are too valuable to be ignored, if it is done only for ISIS.
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Syrian crisis that has lasted for 5 years seems to be more complicated and prolonged. In the sense, as long as ISIS still studded with funds and weapons, the peace will never be come true there. Moreover, if the U.S. and its Western allies remain half-hearted as it is now.
I believe, in the terms of weaponry and personnel, United States only takes a few days to finish ISIS. Remember, in the 1967 war, Israel was alone, but it was able to make Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon to its knees within 6 days. The larger countries -- in terms of population and territory -- were even forced to give up some of their land to Israel. In that war, the Israeli war machines were almost entirely made in America.
Then, when the United States entered directly, large-scale massacres against the Iraqi army and the civilian population was inevitable. Imagine this, operation Desert Storm to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait, which lasted from January 17 to 28 February 1991, causing more than 100 thousand people were killed, almost all the victims killed were soldiers and Iraqi civilians. When this bloody operation carried out, President of Iraq at the time -- Saddam Hussein -- was in his heyday, as well as the military behind him. He could only be moping when he saw his military forces was destroyed.
So, when the ISIS now seems so powerful in the face of the West, I think it's because there's a global conspiracy behind it, as had happened in Afghanistan when it was occupied by the Soviet Union. At that time, in the 1980s, the West gave financial support and weapons on a large scale to help the Mujahideen against Soviet forces.
In the context of Syria, the global conspiracy started with the Arab Spring, a huge wave of pro-democracy movement in the Arab world that could topple the dictatorship in Tunisia and Egypt. The movement also builds confidence which is widespread throughout the world : that all authoritarian regimes in the Middle East will soon collapse.
United States and its allies see the movement as an opportunity to destroy the power of Russia's ally that still reigns in Syria, the Ba'ath socialist party under the leadership of president Bashar al-Assad. The U.S. then conspiring with Turkey to train and equip the pro-democracy rebels and the moderate Islam in Syria. Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had already admitted it openly, that at first, the rebel forces in Syria funded by the United States.
Great military pressure on the rebels was eventually pushed Bashar -- who in fact he is a secular and Western-educated -- to raise Shia solidarity to gain support from Iran.
In a further development, it turns out, the West's help is misplaced. As a result, anti-democratic radical rebel forces even getting bigger. Among these is the Al-Nusra Front or Jabhat al-Nusra, which now becomes an important part of ISIS forces. This extreme group in intelligence operations likened as a trained agent who denies its operator.
Now Turkey itself even in a difficult position, in a sense, Turkey worries the act of ISIS can undermine its country's security, especially Turkey now also becomes a favorite transit region for those who are going to or away from Syria.
But on the other hand, Turkey benefited from the animosity between ISIS with the Kurds. A number of Kurdish regions has even been occupied by ISIS. Of course this makes Turkey happy because during the Kurdish uprising, thousands of soldiers and civilians Turkey have been killed beaten by Kurdish bullets and bombs. This fact makes Turkish government see that the biggest security threat to the country is the armed uprising of Kurds.
Turkey also sees, there are petrodollar and political rulers in the Arab world behind ISIS. They support ISIS as they aim to liberate Iraq and Syria from the grip of the Shiites, because they themselves are Sunni. This is why Turkey's current Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mevlut Cavusoglu is so insistent that ISIS issue should be resolved through cooperation with Middle East countries, which are also the main markets of his country.
Meanwhile pressure is also increasingly hard for Turkey to be more serious in preventing people who want to cross to Syria. UN security council data through the monitoring team of the UN's sanction implementation which was released late last year said that about 15,000 people from over 80 countries entered Syria and Iraq fought alongside ISIS via Turkey.
Turkey also allegedly bought oil from ISIS and becomes a pathway for the smuggling of weapons and war equipment. Hoshyar Zebari -- Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Iraq -- has revealed that ISIS controls a number of oil fields in Syria and Iraq. Oil from the fields are then smuggled through land brokered by Turkey.
To relieve the pressure from international community, Turkish government now do seems to be more serious in dealing with the border crossers, including checks on all the goods which they bring from or to Syria. But, as long as Kurdish rebels still undermines the Turkey security and uses Syria as its military base, then Turkey will still prefer supporting ISIS, because the ISIS attacks against Kurdish military camps give more sense of security to Turkey.
Thus, it's impossible for the US and its Western allies have different views with Turkey, related to the involvement of authorities in oil-rich countries in ISIS. Together with Turkey, the United States see the economic and diplomatic relations with these countries are too valuable to be ignored, if it is done only for ISIS.
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