The rise of islamic state
Though capable of staging spectacular attacks like 9/11, jihadist organizations were not a significant force on the ground when they first became .. Lire la suite
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Though capable of
staging spectacular attacks like 9/11, jihadist organizations were not a
significant force on the ground when they first became notorious in the
shape of al Qa’ida at the turn of century. The West’s initial successes
in the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan weakened their support still
further.
Today, as renowned Middle East commentator Patrick
Cockburn sets out in this explosive new book, that’s all changed.
Exploiting the missteps of the West’s wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and
Libya, as well as its misjudgments in relation to Syria and the
uprisings of the Arab Spring, jihadist organizations, of which ISIS is
the most important, are swiftly expanding. They now control a
geographical territory greater in size than Britain or Michigan,
stretching from the Sunni heartlands in the north and west of Iraq
through a broad swath of north-east Syria. On the back of their capture
of Mosul and much of northern Iraq in June 2014, the leader of ISIS, Abu
Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been declared the head of a new caliphate that
demands the allegiance of all Muslims.
The secular, democratic
politics that were supposedly at the fore of the Arab Spring have been
buried by the return of the jihadis. As the Islamic State announced by
ISIS confronts its enemies, the West will once again become a target.
Cockburn cites an observer in southern Turkey interviewing Syrian jihadi
rebels early in 2014 and finding that “without exception they all
expressed enthusiasm for the 9/11 attacks and hoped the same thing would
happen in Europe as well as the US.”
How could things have gone
so badly wrong? Writing in these pages with customary calmness and
clarity, and drawing on unrivaled experience as a reporter in the
region, Cockburn analyzes the unfolding of one of the West’s greatest
foreign policy debacles and the rise of the new jihadis.
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