West in bed with death squads across Muslim world

Q: Do you agree with that analysis made by our guest Mr. Lawrence Korb, do you think that the Obama administration is taking a lot of caution and the right path by starting to send 300 advisors, but not directly getting involved as of yet? 
 
Chandan: I think in order to understand what is actually going on to go beyond the fog of war, the deceit and the double-dealing that’s ever-present in the mainstream media, I think a simple question has to be asked – and that simple question is – Who benefits the most?
 
Who benefits the most from ISIL’s activity and similar, what I call death squads basically, sectarian death squads – who benefits from this?
 
The United States, Britain and France are in direct alliance with similar forces in Syria as they were in Libya - which the top came off on that issue way back in 2011 when all these people who were broadly under that term al-Qaeda – we were told they were the existential terrorist threat to the West.
 
    And suddenly the West is deeply embedded and in bed with them in relation to a regime change operation against a resistant global south country, which was the Jamahiriya of Libya and an open alliance on Syria.
 
So really on Iraq, who benefits the most?
 
Now… whereas I would agree that the sectarian death squads are definitely a part of the disturbances we’ve been seeing for the last couple of weeks in Iraq, there are other forces at work here, which are sometimes in an uneasy alliance and sometimes has antagonism and basically that’s the members of former ruling party in Iraq under Saddam Hussein – the Baath Party – who are also involved in the disturbances in the towns and cities impacted.
 
    So really the question has to be who benefits from the situation? Clearly I think the United States and Britain and France benefit in as much as it basically opens up a buffer area for the death squads in Syria to develop their capacity. And we already are hearing in the Financial Times today in London of US-made HUMVs being used by the death squads taken from Iraq and used in Syria. 
 
Also it draws in Iran in a very sophisticated operation to soften it up because Iran still at the end of the day is targeted for war by London, Paris and Washington and the white settler Zionist; State and several other strategic things, which are to the benefit of the United States and not to their detriment. So, this I think clearly is how we can see the situation.
 
Q: I’d like to link this to a quote by Tony Blair, he said and I’m quoting here -”Unfortunately Iraq’s leaders have been unable to overcome too often the mistrust and sectarian differences that have long been simmering there”. And this is seen as his support of the idea that this is the fault of the Iraqi government, nothing to do with the US or British role in the country. What do you think about that?    
 
Chandan: It’s once again crazy words from Mr. Blair like what the British and United States’ involvement in Iraq did not fundamentally contribute to the situation that we’re seeing now of course it did. It did for the last 15 years; it did for the last several decades; it has for many generations.
 
Indeed, Iraq was a colony of Britain’s – a colony that was given literally to someone from another part of the Middle East to rule over, which became the king of Iraq who was then overthrown and there was a successive amount of coups.
 
Of course the United States and Britain are deeply implicated. Just last week Foreign Secretary of Britain William Hague was co-hosting a conference about Rape in Conflict with Angelina Jolie. Did not the British bombing of Libya contribute to sexual violence in that country on a massive scale, which they contributed to Ghaddafi, which is actually more attributable to their own allies in the rebels?
 
So, really, these are the masters of war; these are the masters of trauma and destruction across the globe and then trying to project it all onto black and brown people.
 
I wanted develop and perhaps clarify for Mr. Korb – I’m not suggesting or advocating that the United States or Britain conduct any airstrikes in Iraq, not at all; but what I am clearly suggesting is that events there do benefit them.
 
Now… I’ve been discussing with quite a well known advocate against Iraqi sanctions and the war of aggression in Iraq before and just after 2003 and he put an interesting point to me - he said, maybe the United States wants some limited access to some of the oil fields around the area where we’ve been seeing the disturbances; that they’ve been reaching out to the Baathists who are involved - and probably in terms of non-combatant level of disturbances they’re probably the most present political force.
 
So, the United States is reaching out for them to clean up the death squads – ISIS actually – and so they can have some limited access, because obviously the United States and Britain are very concerned that if it does not have some kind of access to the hydrocarbons in Iraq, well, they really don’t want people like China and Russia having access.
 
    And if it’s the case that they cannot have the kind of access that they want, they’re willing to destroy whole regions. I think this is really the big strategy as well.
 
So my Iraqi friend was saying that some of the patriotic Iraqi Shia forces in Iraq will be discussing with the Baathists in a possible alliance of convenience against the death squads and so these kind of machinations are going on – which is nothing new actually because that’s what happened with the siege of Fallujah (twice) and with the siege of Najaf by the USA occupation forces previously.
 
Some interesting machinations and speculative analysis is at work, but I think those who believe in unity – and ‘unity ‘is the only thing that can foil all of the dastardly and nefarious plans for the Iraqi people. Unity is the only course of action; unity against the common enemy, which will save Iraq from really falling off the precipice on which they’re seeing themselves right now.          
 
Q: Do you agree with Mr. Korb’s comments about Mr.Maliki wanting US troops back in Iraq to do more bombing and that al-Qaeda were driven out of Iraq at the time the US left there in 2011?
 
Chandan: The thing is that Britain and the United States is allied to all the main funders and facilitators of ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra and all these death squads. Britain is in a primary strategic alliance economically and geo-politically with the Persian Gulf monarchies – which actually they historically set up anyway.
 
It’s in primary strategic alliance with the intelligence service of Pakistan in relation to its fight against the Afghan Taliban. The ISI are the main supporters and the backbone essentially of the Afghan Taliban.
 
Obviously Britain is not going to say, yes these sectarian death squads are our proxy forces on the ground in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Mali, Yemen etc, they’re not going to say that obviously and we’re not going to have any hard evidence easily to provide that.
 
But we don’t need hard evidence. What was Christopher Stephens (murdered US Ambassador to Libya) doing in his Benghazi compound working with different death squads who eventually lynched him and killed him? The same alliance is in Syria.  The common beneficiaries of this dynamic, the synthesis between these death squads and London, Paris and Washington – particularly London and Washington is very clear.
 
These death squads are an upgrade, it’s a new generation of death squads to those death squads Britain used in the trouble, so-called, in its occupation, which is ongoing in Northern Ireland with the loyalist death squads. The loyalist death squads were trained and armed and financed by the London government, but sometimes the loyalist death squads fought the British army occupying Ireland and even killed members of the British army very similar to this broad umbrella movement called al-Qaeda.  
 
And similarly Mr. Negroponte of the United States was the architect of the death squads in central and so-called Latin America in the 1970s and 1908s.
 
And really these are the models of death squads that we have to understand, which the West has directed and facilitated and given birth to. Then only can we understand the nature and the relationship of the London and the Washington government’s relation to their current upgraded death squads, which they are absolutely unleashing across the Muslim world, which is negatively traumatizing and dividing and destroying much of the homelands across the so-called Muslim world.    
 
Q: One issue that was raised by Mr. Korb is Maliki being responsible for a lot of the troubles that Iraq is currently facing.
 
When John Kerry says that Iraq needs an exclusive government it does look like he’s suggesting the Maliki government is responsible for a lot of what’s happening in the country because they are saying that - as Mr. Korb, said - Baathists are involved; people are against the way Maliki is running the government - seeing this as an opportunity to rise against them.
 
Is that how you’re seeing the picture?  
 
Chandan: Sometimes we have a manifestation of neo-colonialism where there is a lot of deception and sophistication from the West in projecting its power and domination and monopoly of power across the world. Sometimes it’s just straight up simple colonialism.
 
Mr. Kerry goes to Iraq, demands and dictates to the Iraqis what type of government, when and how should institute it, or else, basically.
 
Similarly he went to the Democratic Republic of Congo, gave bit of money and lectured and dictated to its president that you must not stand for another term. It’s ridiculous colonialism and no one should have any truck with it, not least Mr. Maliki and the Iraqi government.
 
I’m not about to go into the internalized and projected trauma, which the United States and Britain have put upon the Iraqi people and its leadership. What I’m more interested in is what the greatest purveyors of violence on our planet still today – that’s NATO and particularly the governments of Washington and Britain are doing to Iraq and the world.
 
And really they have no right to dictate to Maliki and the people of Iraq. They put them in the fire; they put them in this mess and it’s up to the Iraqi people to rise to this challenge and try and get themselves out of that mess.
 
Mr. Korb is right actually both the United States and Britain don’t want to majorly commit militarily to Iraq because actually really their proxy forces are doing the work. They are – Mr. Korb is correct – going on to try and fry bigger fish and that remains to be seen with the pivot to Asia, which is  war on all of Asia particularly China.