[News] ISIS and the USA: Expansion and Resistance by Decapitation

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*ISIS and the USA: Expansion and Resistance by Decapitation 
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By James Petras

Axis of Logic
*http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_67670.shtml*
Friday, Sep 26, 2014

Introduction

In order to overcome massive US and world public opposition to new wars 
in the Middle East, Obama relied on the horrific internet broadcasts of 
ISIS slaughtering two American hostages, the journalists James Foley and 
Steve Sotloff, by decapitation. These brutal murders were Obama's main 
propaganda tool to set a new Middle East war agenda -- his own casus 
belli bonanza! This explains the US Administration's threats of criminal 
prosecution against the families of Foley and Stoloff when they sought 
to ransom their captive sons from ISIS.

With the American mass media repeatedly showing the severed heads of 
these two helpless men, public indignation and disgust were aroused with 
calls for US military involvement to stop the terror. US and EU 
political leaders presented the decapitations of Western hostages by the 
so-called Islamic State (ISIS) as a direct and mortal threat to the 
safety of civilians in the US and Europe. The imagery evoked was of 
black-clad faceless terrorists, armed to the teeth, invading Europe and 
the US and executing innocent families as they begged for rescue and mercy.

The problem with this propaganda ploy is not the villainy and brutal 
crimes celebrated by ISIS, but the fact that Obama's closest ally in his 
seventh war in six years is Saudi Arabia, a repugnant kingdom which 
routinely decapitates its prisoners in public without any judicial 
process recognizable as fair by civilized standards -- unless tortured 
'confessions' are now a Western norm. During August 2014, when ISIS 
decapitated two American captives, Riyadh beheaded fourteen prisoners. 
Since the beginning of the year the Saudi monarchy has decapitated more 
than 46 prisoners and chopped off the arms and limbs of many more. 
During Obama and Kerry's recent visit to Saudi Arabia, horrendous 
decapitations were displayed in public. These atrocities did not dim the 
bright smile on Barak Obama's face as he strolled with his genial royal 
Saudi executioners, in stark contrast to the US President's stern and 
angry countenance as he presented the ISIS killing of two Americans as 
his pretext for bombing Syria.

The Western mass media are silent in the face of the Saudi Kingdom's 
common practice of public decapitation. Not one among the major news 
corporations, the BBC, the Financial Times, the New York Times, the 
Washington Post, NBC, CBS and NPR, have questioned the moral authority 
of a US President who engages in selective condemnation of ISIS while 
ignoring the official Saudi state beheadings and the amputations.

Decapitation and Dismemberment: By Dagger and Drones

The ISIS internet videos showing gaunt, orange-suited Western prisoners 
and their lopped-off heads have evoked widespread dismay and fear. We 
are repeatedly told: 'ISIS is coming to get us!' But ISIS is open and 
public about their criminal acts against helpless hostages. We cannot 
say the same about the decapitations and dismemberments of the hundreds 
of victims of US drone attacks. When a drone fires its missiles on a 
home, a school, wedding party or vehicle, the bodies of living people 
are dismembered, macerated, decapitated and burned beyond recognition -- 
all by remote control. The carnage is not videoed or displayed for mass 
consumption by Obama's high commend. Indeed, civilian deaths, if even 
acknowledged, are brushed off as 'collateral damage' while the vaporized 
remnants of men, women and children have been described by US troops as 
'pink foam'.

If the brutal decapitation and dismemberment of innocent civilians is a 
capital crime that should be punished, as I believe it is, then both 
ISIS and the Obama regime with his allied leaders should face a people's 
war crimes tribunal in the countries where the crimes occurred.

There are good reasons to view Washington's close relation with the 
Saudi royal beheaders as part of a much broader alliance with 
terror-evoking brutality. For decades, the US drug agencies and banks 
have worked closely with criminal drug cartels in Mexico while glossing 
over their notorious practice of decapitating, dismembering and 
displaying their victims, be they local civilians, courageous 
journalists, captured police or migrants fleeing the terror of Central 
America. The notorious Zetas and the Knights Templar have penetrated the 
highest reaches of the Mexican federal and local governments, turning 
state officials and institutions into submissive and obedient clients. 
Over 100,000 Mexicans have lost their lives because of this 'state 
within a state', an 'ISIS' in Mexico -- just 'South of the Border'. And 
just like ISIS in the Middle East, the cartels get their weapons from 
the US imported right across the Texas and Arizona borders. Despite this 
gruesome terror on the US southern flank, the nation's principle banks, 
including Bank of America, CitiBank, Wells Fargo and many others have 
laundered billions of dollars of drug profits for the cartels. For 
example, the discovery of 49 decapitated bodies in one mass in May 2014 
did not prompt Washington to form a world-wide coalition to bomb Mexico, 
nor was it moved to arrest the Wall Street bankers laundering the 
'beheaders bloody booty'.

Conclusion

Obama's hysterical and very selective presentation of ISIS crimes forms 
the pretext for launching another war against a predominantly Muslim 
country, Syria, while shielding his close ally, the royal Saudi 
decapitator from US public outrage. ISIS crimes have become another 
excuse to launch a campaign of 'mass decapitation by drones and 
bombers'. The mass propaganda campaign over one crime against humanity 
becomes the basis for perpetrating even worse crimes against humanity. 
Many hundreds of innocent civilians in Syria and Iraq will be 
dismembered by 'anti-terrorist' bombs and drones unleashed by another of 
Obama's 'coalition'.

The localized savagery of ISIS will be multiplied, amplified and spread 
by the US-directed 'coalition of the willing decapitators'. The terror 
of hooded beheaders on the ground will be answered and expanded by their 
faceless counterparts in the air, while delicately hiding the heads 
rolling through the public squares of Riyadh or the headless bodies 
displayed along the highways of Mexico ... and especially ignoring the 
hidden victims of US-Saudi aggression in the towns and villages of Syria.

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