Weapons in Everyone’s Hands … a Quick Recipe for Disaster

The U.S. is relentless: In order to redouble their attempts, all of which are packaged with descriptions of freedom and democracy, U.S. administrations have made changes to their efforts to spread chaos, which is described as innovation, in the region. These seem to be the latest chapters in the story of the U.S. arming everyone, marking the next phase of everyone fighting.

Early in 2005, the U.S. secretary of state under former President George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice, disclosed in an interview with The Washington Post the U.S. intention to spread democracy in the Arab world and to begin forming what is known as “the new Middle East” by way of spreading American “creative chaos” in the region. Since then, America hasn’t executed a means to achieve this chaos.

Sometimes, the U.S. funds so-called civil society organizations and holds secret discussions with opposition groups, especially those that have a history of violence and terrorism. This happens before an American administration declares its public support, around 10 years later, and arms terrorists directly on the ground. These efforts allow them to put on a display of chaos or claim to face systems that are fighting these exact terrorists at the same time.

It was no coincidence that the U.S. disclosure coincided with the onset of sending, over the next few days, American-grade weapons to Iraqi tribes in the province of Anbar. This was under the pretext of confronting the Islamic State terrorists through America's preparations for the training of new terrorists in Turkish territory — America calls them the moderate opposition — in order to face the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Arming the tribes of Anbar comes after America gave its blessing to the creation of the so-called Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq, and also after the arming of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces in the wake of the rapid collapse of the Iraqi army (also equipped and trained with America’s knowledge) alongside of Islamic State group strikes last June.

If, according to Iraqi officials, the distribution of weapons was under the supervision of the Americans and an Iraqi committee, which includes representatives of the Ministries of National Security and Defense, then arming all the Iraqi factions is only a harbinger of disaster, which will come when sedition catches fire again and the Land of Two Rivers remains immersed in its furnace.

In the Syrian case, on June 9, the U.S. will begin training what it describes as the moderate opposition, after the trainers arrive and are distributed across training sites within Turkish territory.

This program was the preceding intention, before the Pentagon and its plan to extend it to three years, with a value of $500 million and falling under “Chapter X” of the military training program for the moderate Syrian opposition, which opposes the regime of Bashar al-Assad. It includes 15,000 components and plans for strength training to retake the areas controlled by the Islamic State group in Syria.

After the training of these new terrorists, America, backed by Turkey, intends to upset the balance of power inside Syria — the plans for chaos have been unsuccessful throughout the past four years — in favor of groups similar to what America calls the moderate opposition, which are sometimes called the free army and at other times the Nusra Front.

If weapons in everyone’s hands is the latest portrayal of American creative chaos, then the response to this chaos will require limiting weapons in the hands of the state and national army, whether in Syria, Iraq or other target countries, and not entrusting this task to any armed faction, even if their slogans are of good will.