The U.S. envoy charged by President Barack Obama [ad-Dajjal] with building a coalition to fight the militant group Islamic State warned ... that the war against the jihadists was in its early stages.
"The fight will not be easy. There will be ebb and flow on the battlefield," retired General John Allen told reporters during a visit to Baghdad. "This will take time and requires patience."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/03/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-usa-idUSKCN0HS1TH20141003
Envoy ???
An envoy is typically a messenger or representative, especially one on a diplomatic mission. Synonyms for "envoy" include ambassador, emissary, diplomat, consul, attaché, chargé d'affaires, plenipotentiary; nuncio; representative, delegate, proxy, surrogate, liaison, spokesperson; agent, intermediary, mediator, etc.
The US does have a State Department, although for quite some time it has been functioning as just another branch of the US military. So why do we need to send a retired Marine Corps general on this particular mission?
This recent essay by Deena Stryker may contain the answer to that question:
At present a gigantic white lie is being perpetrated on the American people. The government warns that the war against Islamic terrorism will go on for years, but fails to tell us why. That white lie spares us the feeling of despair we would experience if we knew that we’re not only fighting ISIS and its acolytes in Syria and Iraq, but eventually like-minded groups that stretch across entire swathes of the world.
As long as the public is only aware of ISIS and Al Queda, it can resign itself to the idea of the Untied States having ‘one more enemy’ in the long list of enemies it has faced. Were people aware of the fact that the convictions that motivate ISIS and AQ are shared by ever rising numbers of Muslims around the world, they would be so distraught that they might actually begin to wonder what those convictions are, so that perhaps an open-ended war could be averted.
I’ve always disputed Huntington’s ‘Clash of Civilizations’ because it implies that Western civilization is superior to all others. Now it’s precisely that conviction that is being challenged ever more forcefully and ever more broadly by Muslims, at a time when many Westerners have arrived at the same conclusion.
There are two strands to Muslim opposition to the West: the one we hear about is religious, focusing on sexual freedom and attitudes toward women, however, the Muslim world counts a growing cohort of secular young people. As we saw with the Tamarod movement against President Mubarak, many of these youth are attracted to neo-liberal ‘democracy’, with its accent on ‘progress’ and ‘making it’. But there is another group, epitomized by the young Turks who demonstrated for weeks in Istanbul’s beloved Gezi Park to prevent it from being razed to build a shopping mall. This group rejoins a growing number of Westerners who see consumerism as detrimental both to the planet and the soul.
Now just imagine that the religious majority of the world’s Muslim population of 1.6 billion (23% of the world’s population), is affected by the spread of Islamist groups. That is what is being hidden from Western publics, as governments gear up for another round of war.
http://my.firedoglake.com/blog/2014/10/01/the-great-white-lie/
The United States is on a crusade ... a military crusade. We intend to crush Islam, once and for all time. How long will it take? No one knows, but it will last until the threat of Islam (all Islam, not just "radical" Islam) as an alternative to the American "way of life" has been eliminated. Thousands, perhaps millions, will be killed in the process, but don't expect Obama ad-Dajjal or our next Presidents to ever be honest and open about what they're doing and why all those people have to be killed.
Should you doubt that US "leaders" have the ruthlessness or resolve to do such a thing, consider these recent developments:
(1) The killing of civilians is now specifically authorized:
http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-exempts-syria-airstrikes-from-tight-standards-on-civilian-deaths-183724795.html
(2) Combat troops are being deployed in the Ebola outbreak area, where they face the possibility of a horrible death:
http://www.voanews.com/content/us-sending-troops-to-liberia-expanded-ebola-effort/2451118.html
(3) In spite of the fact that the US is broke, our nuclear weapons arsenal will be upgraded at the cost of $1+ trillion:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2765493/Projected-US-nuclear-weapons-spending-hits-1-TRILLION-just-five-years-Obama-s-Nobel-Peace-Prize.html
This new "long war" has the potential to make the Vietnam War look like a softball game in comparison. And for what? So that multi-national corporations (a.k.a. the living dead) can rule the world? Is there anything that We The People will receive in the process, except more crushing debt and a potential huge increase in the number of our war casualties?
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