THE ROVING
EYE American (jihadi)
Idol By Pepe Escobar
I don’t want a holiday in the
sun I wanna go to the new Belsen I wanna
see some history Cause now I got a reasonable
economy - The Sex Pistols,
Holidays in the Sun
Jihadis of
the world, unite; you have nothing to lose but
your stage fright. After Bosnia, Chechnya and
Afghanistan, the West has fallen in love with you
all over again - big time.
As if any extra
proof was needed, here it is - straight from the
mouth of the US establishment, as personified by
the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR). [1]
How lovely to learn that "Free Syrian Army
(FSA) batallions are
tired, divided, chaotic,
an ineffective. Feeling abandoned by the West,
rebel forces are increasingly demoralized ...
Al-Qaeda fighters, however, may help improve
morale. The influx of jihadis brings discipline,
religious fervor, battle experience from Iraq,
funding from Sunni sympathizers in the Gulf, and
most importantly, deadly results. In short, the
FSA needs al-Qaeda now".
Now let's rewrite
the above and set it in the mid-2000s in
Mesopotamia. "The Sunni Iraqi resistance is tired,
divided, chaotic, and ineffective. Feeling
abandoned by the Arab world, rebel forces are
increasingly demoralized as they fight the most
powerful military in history. Al-Qaeda fighters,
however, may improve morale. The influx of jihadis
brings discipline, religious fervor, battle
experience from all corners of the Muslim world,
funding from Sunni sympathizers in the Gulf, and
most importantly, deadly results. In short, the
Sunni Iraqi resistance against the US occupation
needs al-Qaeda now".
Imagine the
Munch-like shrieks of horror all across the West
if someone had proposed that a few years ago. How
is it humanly possible to support "terrists"?
That's easy; as long as the "terrists" are
"our bastards".
The messenger of "terra"
in this CFR case is one Ed Husain, described as "a
senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies" at the
CFR. Before he set up the first-counter terrorism
think tank in Britain, he was "an activist of
Jamat-e-Islami, Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT), and Muslim
Brotherhood front organizations in the United
Kingdom". But thanks Allah he repented, and became
"a strong critic of extremism and Islamism".
Syria proves once again that the West
loves defectors. Still, our Islamist defector is
careful to cover all bases, adding, "the unspoken
political calculation among policymakers is to get
rid of Assad first - weakening Iran's position in
the region - and then deal with al-Qaeda later".
Obviously our defector - who speaks Arabic
and is "familiar" with Urdu - must believe
"blowback" is a porno flick (as a matter of fact,
it also is). Even infants know that after the
1980s Afghan jihad the US, Saudi Arabia and
Pakistan did get their regime change in Kabul.
They also got the Taliban, Osama bin Laden, Ayman
al-Zawahiri and global "terra".
Now I've
got a reason to be waiting.
Syria is now
the ultimate Sex Pistol-inspired Holiday in the
Sun (the jihadi remix); a magnet to Libyans,
Jordanians, Saudis, Algerians, Chechens, Af-Pakis,
and even Brits with thick London accents. [2]
They are fighting alongside Syrian
Islamists such as this one, named Abu Bakr, who
has just got his 15 minutes of fame on Reuters.
[3]
Asked about his future plans, Abu Bakr
admitted, "I don't want to immediately impose
Sharia law and start cutting off people's hands
for stealing. I believe in Sharia. But if we force
it on people, we will create fear. We have to
assure minorities we will treat them well".
The operative word here is of course
"immediately". First we get rid of the bloody
dictator and his evil regime. We save the hand
cutting and the beheading of infidel Alawites,
Christians, Druzes and Kurds for later.
Compounding the farce of an FSA totally
infiltrated by jihadis, and in the case of many
gangs/brigades, actually dominating the whole
thing, Western corporate media is taking no
prisoners selling the notion that the CIA is on
the ground just performing the innocent job of
separating the FSA wheat from the jihadi chaff,
arbitrating who gets suitcases full of US dollars.
Believers take note; Saddam Hussein's
weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) are now on sale
on Ebay.
Apparently no one told US
Secretary of State Hillary "We came, we saw, he
died" Clinton about this jihadi monkey business.
[4]
She is adamant she will have none of
this "disciplined, religious fervor, experience
from Iraq" al-Qaeda eulogies. But then again, she
will; Iran, after all, remains the Supreme Evil
beyond any possible Axis; moreover, Washington
needs a dependable someone to blame in the
never-ending charade of the "war on terra".
So forget about the upcoming Kathryn
Bigelow-directed flick glorifying the Osama bin
Laden raid in Abbottabad. "We're spending billions
of dollars. We are still no closer to defeating
our enemy". [5]
You don't defeat your
enemy; you seduce and co-opt him. Think of a
remake of Billy Wilder's iconic Sunset
Boulevard, with Norma Desmond played by Osama
bin Laden. "I used to be big. It's the pictures
that became small".
Jihadis of the world,
you have nothing to lose but your collection of
al-Zawahiri speeches on scratchy DVD. The time has
come for you to go on a Hollywood pilgrimage, and
finally crack the immortal line; "I'm ready for my
close-up, Mr bin Laden". Get ready to be swamped
by rave reviews.
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