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ISIS is a crisis

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Written by Walter Hecht   
Monday, 11 August 2014 01:44
ISIS is a crisis
According to the media
Alarmists on the right
Emerging from the woodwork
(Actually from right-wing think tanks)
Predict doom if we don't bomb Iraq
To save the al-Maliki government
From its own blunders
Their mistakes and Bush's mistakes
Two wrongs don't make it right
Let the Iraqis settle it
We tried and failed
It's their turn now.

ISIS is the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Some now contend that ISIS would not exist or be a threat if the US had intervened more forcefully in Syria. ISIS is a Sunni organization of people dissatisfied with their governments. Without Syria, the Sunni population of Iraq were dissatisfied with the al-Maliki government and probably would have formed an organization named ISI, the Islamic State of Iraq. However, Sunnis from Syria have joined with Sunnis from Iraq to form ISIS. With a population of about 27 million to Syria's population of about 18 million, Iraq would be the dominant partner by sheer weight of numbers.

How many remember the short-lived union of Egypt and Syria from 1958 to 1961 under Egypt's president Gamal Abdel Nasser? It was called the United Arab Republic and its goal was to unite all of the Arab nations of the Middle East. Since Nasser was not aligned with East or West and was considered a leftist, the West worried about the threat he might pose to western interests. The union broke down and Syria withdrew. This happened without western military action.

Today, scaremongers on the Right are calling for military action against ISIS for a variety of reasons. If we don't kill them over there, we will be forced to kill them over here. I propose the reverse. If we let them live in peace over there, they will let us live in peace over here. Let's try that strategy for a change. We cannot kill every loud mouth who threatens us and we should not try.
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