An American, Not an International Mobilization

Things are unfolding gradually. The “Islamic State” is not just revealing the facts, but also the flaws. What the United States hides differs from what it declares. What the U.S. is concocting hides many abuses, while the world is busy catching its breath and trying to understand the kill-by-the-sword ideology of the “Islamic State”* that we see unfolding from the shameful scenes they perpetrate.

In any case, it seems that the international mobilization being talked about is just an American fabrication. This configuration is not surprising to those countries that are friends of the United States, that listen to its advice, or are in harmony with its wishes. America will not take into consideration the advice of the international community, but only what dictates its own interests, and only its own views derived from its own world.

While President Barack Obama has determined that he needs three years to finish off the “Islamic State,” many are laughing at this irrational viewpoint: first, because it is far from reality; second, because it is linked to the three years remaining in his presidential term; third, because with every new president, many equations keep changing all the time.

It is ironic then that Obama will continue to fight the “Islamic State” for the rest of his years as president. How will he do that? No one knows. Is he going to use inadequate and insufficient airstrikes only? The airstrikes may kill the terrorists but will not eradicate terrorism. This terrorist world is also alert to what may be coming its way to attack it. Thus, it will have a presence in other places, as “al-Qaida”* did.

Is it the “Islamic State” that requires liquidation now, while the so-called “al-Nusra,” the arm of “al-Qaida” in Syria, and others like it are messing up the situation in the region? They are doing what pleases and suits them, and no one is threatening their existence except the Arab Syrian army, which shook it at the core, and even destroyed them in more than one location. It’s possible that none of the American aircraft nor all of America’s allies can do with the “Islamic State” what the Arab Syrian army was able to do with “al-Nusra.”

It is certain that the U.S. is only pursuing the international mobilization in order to serve itself, as if those that it needed in the picture that was taken in Jeddah were nonexistent. Thus, it is obliged to stand alone in this, if necessary. This is actually the reality of the situation. In spite of this, America still refuses to act solo, knowing that the battle will be fierce and long-term. In light of many factors, it finds itself forced to overcome this situation alone, although it knows that the world is not on its side, and that the world around it is changing: The reality now is that its opposing powers have a larger representation.

So, the whole story that the United States is fighting the “Islamic State” and representing the world community is not true. The U.S. is only representing itself. Hence, the current mobilization the U.S. is undertaking has been undermined even before its implementation.

*Editor’s note: The author appears to be using the names of these organizations in quotes in order to remark on how indefinite they are.