”American jihadism” ”American caliphate”

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第二弾「イスラム国」ーイスラム国の正義の下で生きる子供たち

このシリーズをみてみると、極悪非道、残虐であるが、気違いとまではいえない。

自分たち以外はすべて敵、自分たちの理想社会は、暴力によって実現しよう、というわけである。




米大統領「イスラム国を破壊する」、シリア空爆も排除せず
2014.09.04 Thu posted at 09:52 JST


US will 'degrade and destroy' Islamic State: President Obama
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September 4, 2014 - 12:02PM
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Balazs Koranyi and David Mardiste


アメリカ人ジャーナリストが殺害されたのを受けて、の反応である。

少数民族の救出、救援物資の輸送のための、空爆には賛成だし、不正に処刑したものを裁判にかけること自体には賛成だが、しかし、これでは、まさに、テロリストたちと同じ反応であることに気づいていない。

WEDNESDAY, SEP 3, 2014 08:30 PM +0900
ISIS is America’s grotesque Middle Eastern legacy
The origins of the Sunni jihadist group can all be traced to the fallout of our ill-conceived Global War on Terror
TOM ENGELHARDT, TOMDISPATCH.COM

It was, to use a word that George W. Bush let slip only once, something like a “crusade,” something close to a religious war, if not against Islam itself ― American officials piously and repeatedly made that clear ― then against the idea of a Muslim enemy, as well as against al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and later Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. In each case, Washington mustered a coalition of the willing, ranging from Arab and South or Central Asian states to European ones, sent in air power followed twice by full-scale invasions and occupations, mustered local politicians of our choice in major “nation-building” operations amid much self-promotional talk about democracy, and built up vast new military and security apparatuses, supplying them with billions of dollars in training and arms.

Looking back, it’s hard not to think of all of this as a kind of American jihadism, as well as an attempt to establish what might have been considered an American caliphate in the region (though Washington had far kinder descriptive terms for it). In the process, the U.S. effectively dismantled and destroyed state power in each of the three main countries in which it intervened, while ensuring the destabilization of neighboring countries and finally the region itself.

In that largely Muslim part of the world, the U.S. left a grim record that we in this country generally tend to discount or forget when we decry the barbarism of others. We are now focused in horror on ISIS’s video of the murder of journalist James Foley, a propaganda document clearly designed to drive Washington over the edge and into more active opposition to that group.

We, however, ignore the virtual library of videos and other imagery the U.S. generated, images widely viewed (or heard about and discussed) with no less horror in the Muslim world than ISIS’s imagery is in ours. As a start, there were the infamous “screen saver” images straight out of the Marquis de Sade from Abu Ghraib prison. There, Americans tortured and abused Iraqi prisoners, while creating their own iconic version of crucifixion imagery. Then there were the videos that no one (other than insiders) saw, but that everyone heard about. These, the CIA took of the repeated torture and abuse of al-Qaeda suspects in its “black sites.” In 2005, they were destroyed by an official of that agency, lest they be screened in an American court someday. There was also the Apache helicopter videoreleased by WikiLeaks in which American pilots gunned down Iraqi civilians on the streets of Baghdad (including two Reuters correspondents), while on the sound track the crew are heard wisecracking. There was the video of U.S. troops urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. There were the trophy photos of body parts brought home by U.S. soldiers. There were the snuff films of the victims of Washington’s drone assassination campaigns in the tribal backlands of the planet (or “bug splat,” as the drone pilots came to call the dead from those attacks) and similar footage from helicopter gunships. There was the bin Laden snuff film video from the raid on Abbottabad, Pakistan, of which President Obamareportedly watched a live feed. And that’s only to begin to account for some of the imagery produced by the U.S. since September 2001 from its various adventures in the Greater Middle East.

All in all, the invasions, the occupations, the drone campaigns in several lands, the deaths that ran into the hundreds of thousands, the uprooting of millions of people sent into external or internal exile, the expending of trillions of dollars added up to a bin Laden dreamscape. They would prove jihadist recruitment tools par excellence.

When the U.S. was done, when it had set off the process that led to insurgencies, civil wars, the growth of extremist militias, and the collapse of state structures, it had also guaranteed the rise of something new on Planet Earth: ISIS ― as well as of other extremist outfits ranging from the Pakistani Taliban, now challenging the state in certain areas of that country, to Ansar al-Sharia in Libya and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen.

　いま、ジャーナリストが残虐に殺害される場面が繰り返し報道されているが、しかし、イスラムの人々にとっては、同胞が、アメリカ兵によって、拷問にかけられ、死体まで、侮辱、毀損され、一般市民が無残に殺される場面が、繰り返し報道され、焼きついているーーー同胞のジャーナリストが殺害されて、イスラム国を破滅するという大統領がいるのだから、アメリカを破滅するという中東の人々がでてくるのはおかしくない。

After all, we dismantled the Iraqi army and rebuilt one that would flee at the first signs of ISIS’s fighters, abandoning vast stores of Washington’s weaponry to them. We essentially destroyed the Iraqi state, while fostering a Shia leader who would oppress enough Sunnis in enough ways to create a situation in which ISIS would be welcomed or tolerated throughout significant areas of the country.

　地域の実情がわからずに、イラク軍を解体し、新しい軍隊を作って、住民を弾圧させて、イスラム国が歓迎される土壌を作ったのは、まさにアメリカではないか、と。


アメリカの戦術の一つのパターンであって、

Free and Equal - タイムラインの写真

　１　アメリカの言うことを聞かない敵を打倒するための独裁組織を現地で構築。
　　　なお、その組織の犯罪には眼をつむる

　２　その組織がアメリカの役にたたなくなったら、眼をつむってきたその組織の犯罪を暴き、
　　　アメリカ国民に繰り返し宣伝し、恐怖を煽る。

　３　国民がその組織の非道な犯罪に怒りを感じるようになったところで、軍事介入　あるいは/かつ、国民の自由を制限する、

　アメリカのやっていることは、悪いことばかりではないが、同時に、正義とも限らないのであって、欧米かぶれが多い日本人は、独自の批判的な視点で国際政治を眺める必要があるのではないか。