Dear NATO, 13 years, billions spent, and here we are. You finally got your way-Assad out, and your man Julani, Israel’s buddy, in charge. When the situation inevitably deteriorates, let there be no attempts to label Julani and HTS as 'Islamic terrorists.' These are your people, your creation. Own it.
A priceless talk. It is always a pleasure to listen to Anderson. I don't know if it will be him or someone else, but one day, someone will have to do an extensive study of the relations of convenience between Sunni political Islam in general, or Salafism in particular, and the strategic, commercial and military interests of countries like the United States or the United Kingdom. And to what extent Salafism and Sunni Islam have been a proxy for those countries to destabilize, erode or destroy from within their political enemies in the Muslim world, whether they were pan-Arabists and nationalists at first, communists, or later Shiites. Some authors like R. Dreyfuss or M. Curtis have already spoken on the subject, but it is urgent to study how this relationship of convenience survived the Cold War and is still in full force. The ability of American propaganda to make both its allies and its enemies believe that Uncle Sam is the great world dam against extremism and terrorism is as great as its hypocrisy. But caution ‐ The United States has not done all that out of sympathy with religious extremism or terrorism: it has done it because it considered both useful against its enemies. When they were no longer useful to the US, they fought them. People often remember American support for the Afghan Deobandi mujahideen. Some people remember American support for Syrian or Libyan rebels. Even fewer remember American support for Bosnian secessionists or Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood in the Egyptian elections (even though they later supported the coup against him, too). But almost no people know or remember that all this began not with the Axis of Resistance, not with the Arab Spring, not with the Soviet Afghan War, but in 1956 ‐ when, faced with the threat that Nasser would become an uncontrollable figure or move closer to the USSR, the Eisenhower administration ordered the Omega Memorandum to be drawn up, which planned to turn King Saud into a sort of world symbol of the Islamic faith that would neutralise Nasser, rivalling him for popularity among the Arab masses and appealing to pan-Islamist values in contrast to the Egyptian leader's pan-Arabism (the attack on Nasser was twofold, since in addition to being religious and ideological it was also military, first through the Sinai War and then the Six-Day War). Some say that the Memorandum failed because King Saud was deposed by his brother, but the truth is that from 1973 A.S. began to be exactly what was demanded of it: a general directorate for the worldwide export of Salafism (called Wahhabism abroad) at the service of Washington's interests. This USA-Sunni political or militant Islamism alliance continues to operate today against Shiites and non-Islamist Muslim leaders.
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Dear NATO, 13 years, billions spent, and here we are. You finally got your way-Assad out, and your man Julani, Israel’s buddy, in charge. When the situation inevitably deteriorates, let there be no attempts to label Julani and HTS as 'Islamic terrorists.' These are your people, your creation. Own it.
Fresh point of view, adding to the clarity.
We thank our guest Tim Anderson for his well informed and balanced commentary on the current situation in Syria and the wider region of West Asia.
A priceless talk. It is always a pleasure to listen to Anderson. I don't know if it will be him or someone else, but one day, someone will have to do an extensive study of the relations of convenience between Sunni political Islam in general, or Salafism in particular, and the strategic, commercial and military interests of countries like the United States or the United Kingdom. And to what extent Salafism and Sunni Islam have been a proxy for those countries to destabilize, erode or destroy from within their political enemies in the Muslim world, whether they were pan-Arabists and nationalists at first, communists, or later Shiites. Some authors like R. Dreyfuss or M. Curtis have already spoken on the subject, but it is urgent to study how this relationship of convenience survived the Cold War and is still in full force. The ability of American propaganda to make both its allies and its enemies believe that Uncle Sam is the great world dam against extremism and terrorism is as great as its hypocrisy. But caution ‐ The United States has not done all that out of sympathy with religious extremism or terrorism: it has done it because it considered both useful against its enemies. When they were no longer useful to the US, they fought them.
People often remember American support for the Afghan Deobandi mujahideen. Some people remember American support for Syrian or Libyan rebels. Even fewer remember American support for Bosnian secessionists or Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood in the Egyptian elections (even though they later supported the coup against him, too). But almost no people know or remember that all this began not with the Axis of Resistance, not with the Arab Spring, not with the Soviet Afghan War, but in 1956 ‐ when, faced with the threat that Nasser would become an uncontrollable figure or move closer to the USSR, the Eisenhower administration ordered the Omega Memorandum to be drawn up, which planned to turn King Saud into a sort of world symbol of the Islamic faith that would neutralise Nasser, rivalling him for popularity among the Arab masses and appealing to pan-Islamist values in contrast to the Egyptian leader's pan-Arabism (the attack on Nasser was twofold, since in addition to being religious and ideological it was also military, first through the Sinai War and then the Six-Day War). Some say that the Memorandum failed because King Saud was deposed by his brother, but the truth is that from 1973 A.S. began to be exactly what was demanded of it: a general directorate for the worldwide export of Salafism (called Wahhabism abroad) at the service of Washington's interests. This USA-Sunni political or militant Islamism alliance continues to operate today against Shiites and non-Islamist Muslim leaders.