Many countries choosing to ignore danger posed by ISIS (traduction d’un article du Safir)
▻http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/security/2014/06/isis-iraq-syria-countries-ignore-danger.html
There is no doubt that what ISIS is doing matches the goals of the creative chaos policy sought by Western countries. But the very close match has made it impossible to tell which of the two parties is serving the other’s project. Although each party is betting on its ability to ultimately impose its own project and uproot the elements that don’t agree with it, merely accepting that the possibilities remain open, and the danger that this entails to the countries in the region as a whole, can only mean that the two parties are openly colluding to hit the area and change its geopolitics without taking into account the cost that will paid by the region and its people.
To implement its project amid this complex international game, ISIS is depending on external and internal factors that would give a degree of power, which ISIS has proved would be more than enough to continue playing the game while avoiding its risks.
One of the most important external factors that ISIS is using is the “invisibility cloak” granted to it by the political and media propaganda promoting the idea that what is happening in the region, and specifically in Iraq and Syria, is a “popular revolution” against a tyrannical regime. So ISIS’s role was minimized and most events were attributed to other parties dubbed “rebels.”
It is no secret that research centers and media outlets, with direct guidance from the intelligence services, have devoted all their time and effort to market the idea that what’s happening in Iraq is a “revolution” carried out by the tribes against the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, in a repeat of the Syria scenario since its crisis began in 2011.