The US-led offensive against the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, begun this week, is part of the protracted and unfolding US war crimes that have killed, maimed and displaced millions across the Middle East.
Once again, a horrific humanitarian catastrophe is being unleashed upon a civilian population that suffered more than its share of death and destruction during the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the subsequent eight years of American occupation.
This occupation relied on the age-old oppressor’s tactic of divide and rule, stoking sectarian conflicts that had a particularly bitter character in Mosul with its broad intermingling of different ethnic and religious groups, including Sunni Arabs, Kurds, Turkmens, Yazidis, Armenians and others.
The sectarianism promoted by the US occupiers created fertile ground for the growth of the Islamic State (ISIS), which the present offensive is ostensibly directed at crushing. The Shia-dominated government installed in Baghdad persecuted the Sunni majority of Mosul and Anbar province, jailing and killing prominent Sunni leaders, suppressing the population and treating all opposition to its rule as “terrorism.”
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http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/10/20/pers-o20.html
This is not unlike how the US dealt with native Americans - divide and rule, peppered with periods of outright slaughter. We're not "indispensable"; we're unconscionable.
And I would not be surprised if more countries followed the lead of the Philippines and broke away from US rule. When more countries gang up on us, it will be the end of our economy ... and US hegemony. You can read about one aspect of this possibility here:
http://geab.eu/en/us-isolation-when-global-finance-turns-away-from-the-dollar-system-it-means-the-cliff-is-near/
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