US 'Fights Terror' in Syria, Forgetting Who Stoked It
Deutsche Welle blandly states the US launched airstrikes on IS targets in Syria following an attack, dutifully reporting the Pentagon's justification of 'self-defense.' The glaring omission, of course, is any mention of Syria's sovereignty or the legality of a foreign military occupying parts of its territory. This isn't just about 'fighting IS'; it's about maintaining a military footprint for
geopolitical leverage. We're told these strikes are about counter-terrorism, but one might wonder why the US still occupies Syrian oil fields, a policy dating back to the Trump administration in 2019, which appears less about ISIS and more about resource control. The media routinely presents these actions in a vacuum, ignoring how successive US administrations, under the guise of supporting
'moderate rebels' against Assad, actively destabilized the region. Declassified intelligence reports, like the 2012 DIA memo, explicitly warned that Western support for the Syrian opposition could lead to the rise of Salafist groups, including what became ISIS. So, the US 'fights terror' it inadvertently (or not so inadvertently) helped create, then sells it as a heroic cleanup effort. How many
more cycles of intervention and blowback will we endure before the press dares connect the dots?