Who pulls the strings behind ISIS?
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“Logistics is half the battle,” said Napoleon. And so, who is providing the food, transportation, weapons, etc. for ISIS? Who is selling and buying the oil from wells that ISIS conquers? What bankers and financial organizations are transferring, laundering or sheltering the funds? These are your enemies. What would Roosevelt do to business people whose transactions aided and abetted the Imperial Japanese or Nazi Germans in the 1940s?
Somehow, I think we are seeing a re-enactment of the 1930s. When America was in a Depression, it often turned a blind eye concerning the depredations of tthe Japanese Army upon the people of Manchuria and China. Japan was placing lucrative orders for steel and oil to feed its war machine. In Spain of the 1930s, many rival nations supported various factions, sending in advisers and supplying their favorite political groups with weapons. They made Spain a weapons testing ground.
Likewise ISIS, and all the other contending jihadist assassin sects, seem to be acting more like the private , mercenary armies of various wealthy patrons in a proxy war. Perhaps we all want to continue a pretense. We may not want to reveal the fact that it is America’s perfidious “allies,” the petroleum sheiks in the Persian Gulf, who are controlling these various “old men of the mountain” jihadists. It could be the United States’ duplicitous trading partner, and major holder of America’s national debt, China, who is orchestrating this terror behind the scenes. China does need a cheap and reliable source of energy, being the major importer of Middle Eastern oil. And we cannot discount Russia, Syria and Gazprom as international players with high stakes in controlling the energy flow in the region.
The question we must ask is, after careful investigation, we discover ISIS to be funded or aided by wealthy CEOs of multinational companies or sponsored by very powerful political leaders, will we act decisively and remove these sources of support? Or will we just maintain a pretense, to disguise our cowardice to confront the real source of this evil?
Michael Guy
Canonsburg