By Eric Margolis
October 22, 2017
The so-called Islamic State
organization was primarily a bogeyman encouraged by the western powers.
I’ve been saying this for the last four years. I asserted, as a former
soldier and war correspondent, that IS would collapse like a wet paper bag if
proper western ground forces attacked their strongholds in Syria and
Iraq. This week, the western powers and their local satraps finally took
action and stormed the last IS stronghold at Raqqa. To no surprise, IS
put up almost no resistance and ran for its miserable life. The much-dreaded IS was
never more than a bunch of young hooligans and religious fanatics who were as
militarily effective as the medieval Children’s Crusade.
In the west, IS was blown
up by media and governments into a giant monster that was coming to cut the
throats of honest folk in the suburbs. IS did stage some very
bloody and grisly attacks – that’s what put it on the map. But none
of them posed any mortal threat or really endangered our national
security. In fact, the primary target of IS attacks has been Shia
Muslims in the Mideast. Many of the IS attacks in
North America and Europe were done by mentally deranged individuals or were
initiated by under-cover government provocateurs, such as the 1993 bombing of
New York’s World Trade Center. IS was notorious for falsely taking credit
for attacks it did not commit.
