29, August 2014 Response
to NYT op ed regarding ‘how to discourage western jihadists from becoming
radicalized’
Before we cast ourselves as paragons of virtue, we should
remember that we engaged in a ‘gloves off' jihadist pogrom with the help of our
military and CIA overthrowing democratic governments like a game of global
chess. A sample of our dark deeds, in 1953-54 the CIA (and British
intelligence) orchestrated the overthrow of Iran's (parliamentary elected)
Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, who had sought to build a true democracy and
follow a neutral path between the Soviet Union and the West. 50 years ago, President
Lyndon Johnson made the bogus claim that US naval ships had been attacked by
North-Vietnamese PT boats in the Gulf of Tokin which drew us into a disastrous conflict. Later Johnson
retracted his statement. Read ‘Hidden
history of Vietnam “Kill anything that moves” by Nick Turse. He describes a
litany of atrocities committed in Vietnam - 3.2 million killed 11 million
wounded. More recently, Ayatollah Bush invaded Iraq based on bogus WMD’s which
led to the death of over 1 million Iraq’s and the displacement of 3 million.
Following 9-11 we went on another wild chase to Afghanistan ignoring the fact that
9 of the 11 hijackers were from our bosom ally, Saudi Arabia. Moving off my
soap box, I agree with many of the comments made that we should cut off the
funding of these ISIS jihadists and seek help from Muslim scholars to
critically evaluate the Koranic verses for proper interpretation or removal of
the more offensive passages.
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