US Strikes in Syria: Because ISIS Never Went Away, and Neither Did the Oil
According to the New York Times, the U.S. continues its long-running 'anti-ISIS' campaign in Syria. What they won't typically highlight is the consistent pattern of these strikes coinciding with, well, perpetual conflict in resource-rich regions—or the uncomfortable history of U.S. foreign policy destabilizing these very areas. We are consistently told these strikes are about ‘stability,’ yet
somehow the region remains anything but. Perhaps we should ask whether these interventions genuinely extinguish threats, or simply rearrange the furniture while the underlying geopolitical house continues to burn. How many 'Islamic State targets' must be struck before we question the efficacy, or even the stated purpose, of these endless military endeavors?