The Neoconservatives and the Islamic State

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http://watchingamerica.com/WA/2014/10/03/the-neo-conservatives-and-the-islamic-state/

The Neoconservatives and the Islamic State
Published in Al Quds (Palestine) on 19 September 2014 by Ragheed Al-Sulh [link to original]
Translated from Arabic by Hend Al-Rijab. Edited by Nicholas Eckart.
Posted on October 3, 2014.

As the neoconservatives asked the American government to engage in pre-emptive war to protect the United States from aggression, they applied this policy to protect themselves from those who blame them for the Iraq War and its consequences, which stretch to the emergence and exacerbation of the Islamic State. It is an axiom of that war that their role was decisive. They had the greatest impact in dissolving the Iraqi army, and thus in opening the Iraqi door to the various forms of terrorism.

When we return to the facts and beginnings of the war, we find they strove to restrain and disable all serious discussion of the situation in Iraq and in the region after the war. They considered this effort a form of obstruction of the war, and they undervalued the consensus that called for good preparation, including sending a sufficient number of ground forces, over three times those that participated in the Iraqi campaign.

Americans who remember these facts and build upon an attitude toward the neoconservatives and toward the economic and ideological interests they represent will begin to discount them and critique their attitudes and influence on American public life. Therefore, it was necessary to keep the door of repudiation open and to recently re-enter it. Especially at the moment of the dramatic development of the Islamic State in the Arab region, which highlights another aspect of the errors and falls that accompanied the war on Iraq in its various stages. Especially when the occupation authority decided to dissolve the Iraqi army and create a security vacuum that has benefited the Islamic State group and all similar terrorist organizations.

To deny these mistakes and throw responsibility on others, and out of a desire to repeat the role played by the neoconservatives and extremist supporters of Israel and its supporters in the United States in a new and acceptable way, Richard Perle, a famous neoconservative theorist and strategist, has made a press release to Prospect magazine (in August 2014) in which he strongly criticized the American administration, and even the West in general, whom he blames for the development of the Islamic State group and similar phenomena.