{"id":15130,"date":"2015-12-09T08:04:08","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T13:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15130"},"modified":"2015-12-09T08:04:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T13:04:08","slug":"why-isis-exists-the-double-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15130","title":{"rendered":"Why ISIS Exists: The Double Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/12\/isis-exists-double-game.html\" target=\"_blank\">Why ISIS Exists: The Double Game<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.internationalpolicydigest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1534658578207.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.internationalpolicydigest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1534658578207-300x188.jpg 300x, http:\/\/www.internationalpolicydigest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1534658578207.jpg 800x\" alt=\"Pete Souza\" width=\"790\" height=\"493.749999999\" \/>Pete Souza<\/div>\n<p>The western press laments the near impossibility of defeating an organization that didn\u2019t even exist a couple of short years ago. Brand ISIS, the unconquerable, may actually become a truism if the people of the western nations continue to listen to the lies and propaganda of their own governments.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve been told a lot of things about the war in Syria, and clearly most of it is finely crafted war propaganda, which seeks to obscure the forest by showing you an endless series of trees. The trees are gunshots, explosions, and dead bodies. The forest is elusive, vast, covers several continents, and we are only ever given small samples of the terrain. The section of the forest that receives some of the latest scrutiny is not necessarily the crucial part of the story. Beneath the entire forest lies an aquifer, a vast ocean of water that feeds the trees invisibly, silently, yet persistently. Without this water supply there would be no forest to speak of.<\/p>\n<p>But here is where the metaphor breaks. Unlike an underground reservoir, which is impossible to eradicate, the money and weapons transfers to fundamentalist militants can be stopped. The problem is that western so-called \u201cleaders\u201d have done absolutely nothing to stop them. In fact they rarely mention these sources of terrorist arms, training and funding at all, in public anyway. When acknowledged these become theater, hand wringing, vague excuses rather than concrete action. At other times intelligence services themselves willingly hand over sophisticated weapons to terrorists, such as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/syria-rebels-and-tow-missiles-2015-10\">TOW anti-tank missiles<\/a>\u00a0and surface to air \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/30\/world\/middleeast\/sending-missiles-to-syrian-rebels-qatar-muscles-in.html\">MANPADS<\/a>\u201d capable of bringing down commercial airliners. The nations most responsible for creating the extremist armies on the ground\u2014Turkey and the Persian Gulf tyrannies\u2014are close allies and even \u201cfriends\u201d to US and European political masters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why ISIS Exists: The Double Game Pete Souza The western press laments the near impossibility of defeating an organization that didn\u2019t even exist a couple of short years ago. Brand ISIS, the unconquerable, may actually become a truism if the people of the western nations continue to listen to the lies and propaganda of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[281,1239,446,447,522,694,776,818,827,5510,10970],"class_list":["post-15130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-europe","tag-is","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-middle-east","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-turkey","tag-united-states","tag-washingtons-blog","tag-western-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15131,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15130\/revisions\/15131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}