Clancy Sigil, Counterpunch - Sooner or later, as we learned in Northern Ireland and elsewhere, and as all trade unionists know, you have to sit down with your worst enemy and work out a deal. It always seems impossible at first. Their atrocities and a desire for blood revenge fog our mind, and the very idea of talking to the suicide bombers’ shot-callers is “appeasement of evil”, which it is.
But why stick on a failing principle when lives are at stake? ISIS doesn’t want our money but our recognition of the Caliphate as a legitimate state. Whether we like it or not that’s pretty much where it is. They ain’t going away any time soon. Journalists have stopped calling ISIS the “so called” or “self styled”. That’s how we tried wishing away the IRA with stunning lack of success at first.
“We don’t negotiate with terrorists”? Sure, we do. After swearing on the King James Bible “no surrender to terror”, the British government, with lots of talk and some money, bought peace from the armed and quite ferocious IRA (which on one occasion bombed me out of my bed). Yet today former IRA killers like deputy first minister Martin McGuinness and Mary McCardle sit in the Northern Ireland Assembly as part of the peace agreement with Sinn Fein (alias IRA).
Israel, which trumpets the “we never reward terrorists” line, constantly negotiates prisoner releases and swaps all the time in return for dead or alive IDF soldiers. It’s a fairly open secret that the French and probably British and Germans deal via foreign intermediaries, or their own secret services, with some pretty nasty ISIS genociders...
ISIS is our original sin because of the lying, deadly way we invaded Iraq. You break it, you pay for it, in the no less immortal words of one of the chief liars, Gen. Colin Powell.
Shit, man. It’s only money.
1 comment:
you don't negotiate with people you could exterminate, basic Axis principle from WWII. If the enemy can be made to appear beyond the pale, not a Continental sophisticate like Putin but someone of another "race", then that confers a hunting permit on racial supremacist grounds. This has nothing to do with the likely reality that US Axis partners have created ISIS just as the US created al Qaeda. So this is more of the nature of a mob hit of a disloyal former member of the family, as with Saddam and Osama. This is Joe Pesci not Clement Atlee. BTW, Hitler advised Chamberlain, I think it was, that Gandhi should simply be executed with his leadership. The advice the Brits wouldn't take, Cheney and his successors have adopted.
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