[quote]Musashi92 wrote:
[quote]SexMachine wrote:
[quote]smh_23 wrote:
Who gives a shit about shaking his hand before bringing him down? He fucked us and then started playing nice. We played nice and then things changed and we fucked him. C’est la guerre, as you well know. As for his being a “staunch” ally: allies who are fighting uprisings, losing major cities and huge chunks of territory, bombing their own civilians – allies who, most importantly, are 1/2 of a recipe for protracted civil war (which meal is the best source of jihadist cancer money can buy [see Syria and Iraq, which gave us ISIS]) – are of no use to us. We helped bring him down and the country became far less bloodily volatile for years. There is every reason to believe that the alternative would have resulted in a Syria-like half-decade of war, along with all the consequences entailed by that. In which case, instead of metastatic ISIS taking hold in the Libya of today, it would be taking hold in a more war-torn, more violent – an even more receptive – Libya. Or it would be meeting up with some ISIS-like Libyan counterpart.
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What are you talking about? Obama started the civil war:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE72T6H220110330?irpc=932
Remember? None of this would be happening if it wasn’t for Obama. I can’t even follow what it is you’re rambling on about. Some chain of events about I don’t know what. Obama went in and sowed a little insurgency. That’s what he does. Division. Subversion. And he started the whole thing.
It died down with your help? He started it and it’s all part of a broader Arab uprising that Obama started or collaborated with. And with the withdrawal from Iraq it’s blossomed into a full blown Mahdist uprising and civil war.
Isn’t that obvious? Gaddafi running a wealthy Petro-oligarchy that at the very least is keeping a lid on all the Islamic fundamentalists. A centralised authority instead of a patchwork of tribal militias and a failed state?
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I have said why I think it isn’t: because without our intervention, the civil war would have gone on – may well still be going on – and this is the ideal environment for the new wave of Utopian Caliphatism.[/quote]
He started the civil war. That’s all there is to it. [/quote]
A bit off topic sex a,chine but I was wondering about your description of the the term Mahdist uprising but ISIS and their affiliates follow plain Wahhabism, they are not claiming the prophesied one, they do not claim to follow the guided one as all Madhist movements and rebels have.
ISIS don’t claim prophecy, they are not following a Mahdi. So how can they be labeled as such?[/quote]
You are mistaken. Many of al Baghdadi’s followers believe he is the Mahdi and he has played on that by declaring himself Caliph and claiming to be a direct descendent of Mohammad he is invoking Sunni Hanabi prophecy about the coming of Mahdi and Jesus. Juhayman al-Otaybi who led the Grand Mosque seizure and began the Saudi Ikwan revival that is AQ/ISIS claimed to be the Mahdi himself.