The Real News Network has the interview Islamic State Born of Deteriorating Economic Conditions in Iraq.
Poverty and inequality created by the plunder of Iraq’s wealth by elites and multinational corporations after the US occupation of Iraq a great recruiting tool for ISIS says Sabah Alnasseri, Professor at York University’s Department of Political Science.
In the main stream media we hear about how the youth around the world are being recruited to fight in places like Iraq on the side of ISIS. I have yet to read a serious discussion of what it is that attracts people to join. This video starts to fill in what is missing in the understanding that I have.
I’ll have to confess that I have not been keeping up-to-date with The Real News Network as much as I have in the past, so I probably have missed a lot of the explanation here that I have been missing elsewhere.
It is sad to contemplate how much damage the Bush administration did by deciding to force American style government onto another country in the name of Neocon ideology. The Bush administration had a firm view on what they thought was wrong with Iraq, but they had no clue about what was right.
I say “American style government”, but that is not completely true. For thirty or forty years or more, the Neocons have been destroying what has worked in America and transforming it to their liking. If they didn’t have a US Constitution and traditions that restrained them here, they might have done to the US in the same amount of time they were able to do it in Iraq.