Iraq just unliberated a bit of itself

[The Dharma Bum]

ISIS is the same exact people who you warmongers were supporting a few months back when you were calling for Syrian blood and talking about how the atrocities of the Assad regime made it necessary to attack Syria.

Now you want to back Assad to fight them? That's not backwards, just crazy.

[eynon81]

[eynon81]

[The Dharma Bum]

Next you are going to tell me that ISIS is the harlot of babylon and this is the apocalypse

c'mon man how many times will America fall for that shit?

[eynon81]

[eynon81]

[Lobster]

Tsk, how dare anyone call ISIS "backwards", that's so racist and ethnocentric. Decapitations, crucifixions and ethnic cleansing are just a part of their culture, and only present there because of western imperialist oppression. /s
Seriously though, Dharma pretending ISIS are some sort of freedom fighters that are a culmination of an anti-capitalist, anti-western sentiment is just his own political wishful thinking. Yeah, they're real tired of dictatorships. I'm sure what they want in replacement will be an anarchist democratic wonderland, you naive f**k. It won't be an extremely oppresive feudal religious hierarchy at all.
The conflict is simple and boils down to identity politics, namely religion and ethnicity. Take those two factors into account and everything is crystal clear. It's a proxy war for regional supremacy between sunni and shia, with the kurdish wild card (no one involved, especially Turkey and Iran, want an independant kurdish state on their borders and conveniently right next to their sizeable separitist kurdish minorities). Ironically ethnocentric ignorants will try to somehow make it all about them and their evil, evil country, driven by their distorted white man's burden and gross narcissism, but the roots of this conflict predate the existence of the Great Shaytan by centuries.


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[Indy]

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[Lobster]

From what I've seen it was mostly right wingers that were ideologically in support of Assad's regime, with leftists praising the initial uprising as a further extension of the Arab Spring that was ruthlessly opressed by Assad. Of course when ISIS and other powerful islamist militias entered the picture and started dominating the situation, going so far as to outright declare war on the "secular" FSA, the leftists suddenly lost interest. Of course this is from a european and specifically french perspective, so the terms "right" and "left" have distinct meanings.