Obama and Islamic State

Published in El Comercio
(Ecuador) on 12 September 2014
by Editorial (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by . Edited by Emily Chick.
The President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, announced that the country might attack the armed terrorist forces of the self-titled Islamic State, even without the approval of Congress.

Thursday’s announcement, which was made by the president himself to the leaders of the House of Representatives and the Senate, goes a step beyond the selective attacks that were announced recently against the terrorist group’s operations in Iraq and Syria — attacks that have spread blood and destruction since the offensive began against the governments and their armed forces in both countries.

The leaders of Islamic State proclaimed an Islamic Caliphate and their intention to expand its power to other countries such as Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel.

The organization is a fundamentalist group from the Sunni faction that wages war and terror on civilians in order to apply severe and outdated norms of coexistence wherever it operates.

At the moment, its warlike actions are unfolding in Iraq, where its military weakness is obvious following the Gulf War in which the U.S. military power ended Saddam Hussein’s tyranny. It has also entered Syria, which is facing a civil war with countless civilians who have been taking up arms for three years against the secular dictatorship of President al-Assad.

Obama, who advocated for troops in the area to leave due to public pressure, has once again fallen to the temptation of military intervention, bringing criticism, enormous expense and the risk of losing many lives. The power of the United States is a boomerang.


El presidente de Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, Barack Obama, anunció que puede atacar a las fuerzas terroristas armadas del autotitulado Estado Islámico, aun sin la aprobación del Congreso.

El anuncio del jueves, comunicado por el propio Mandatario a los líderes de la Cámara de Representantes y el Senado, es un paso más allá de los ataques selectivos que anunció hace poco contra las operaciones del grupo terrorista en los territorios de Iraq y Siria y que han sembrado sangre y destrucción desde la ofensiva contra los gobiernos y sus Fuerzas Armadas en estos dos países.

Los líderes del Estado Islámico proclamaron un califato y su intención de extender su poderío por otros territorios como Turquía, Líbano Jordania e Israel.

Se trata de un grupo fundamentalista, de la facción sunita, que aplica severas normas de convivencia, anacrónicas, en los sitios que ocupa mediante la guerra y el terror a la población civil.

De momento sus actos bélicos se despliegan en Iraq, de manifiesta debilidad militar tras la guerra del Golfo en que el poderío bélico de EE.UU. acabó con la tiranía de Saddam Hussein. Además, penetran en Siria, que afronta una guerra civil con innumerables civiles alzados en armas desde hace tres años contra la dictadura laica del presidente Al Asad.

Obama, que alentó la salida de tropas en la zona por presiones de opinión pública, ha vuelto así a la tentación de una incursión militar que trae críticas, ingentes gastos y riesgo para muchas vidas. El poder de EE.UU. es un bumerán.
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