Many nations’ true colors have grown more pronounced, more contrasted than at any recent point in history. The Islamic State perfectly couples the savagery of religious fanaticism with the unsustainable, mad expansionist philosophy of Nazi fascism, yet even their intentions were questioned by most western governments, until quite recently. In the midst of the undeniable terror caused by this proxy military organization, a set of scenario has been created, one in which, as is common in times of crisis, what is right or wrong becomes crystal clear.
The failed states of Libya, Syria can attest to what little credibility America gives Jihadist group’s mobilizing appeal in times of revolution and terror; Iraq, though still pulsing slightly, would certainly tease at a necrophiliac’s loins. Through the destruction, under the drenching, despairing sights of pan-cultural extermination, the cheap façade of so many has been revealed Turkey’s brief appearance in a world not revolved around the wishes of Islamic extremists has ended; America, with an army of robotic, indiscriminate, fanaticism inducing drones, are able to now avoid the more unpleasant aspects of imperialist campaigns, by avoiding any American losses or need to interfere in non-profitable regions of an invested-in country; each and every member of NATO has chosen cooperation with international law violator Turkey over assisting the currently embattled Kurds in Kobani.
As a side note: This passage comes from the opening preamble of the Rojava Charter. Unlike so many states in the region, Kurdish Syria actually demonstrates a belief in the words written in their constitution. The military force, as well as the overall economic constitution, is made up of people from numerous religions and ethnicites.
“[w]e the peoples of the democratic self-administration areas; Kurds, Arabs, Assyrians (Assyrian Chaldeans, Arameans), Turkmen, Armenians, and Chechens, by our free will, announce this to ensure justice, freedom, democracy, and the rights of women and children in accordance with the principles of ecological balance, freedom of religions and beliefs, and equality without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, creed, doctrine or gender, to achieve the political and moral fabric of a democratic society in order to function with mutual understanding and coexistence within diversity and respect for the principle of self-determination and self-defense of the peoples.”
It continues,
“The autonomous areas of the democratic self-administration do not recognize the concept of nation state and the state based on the grounds of military power, religion, and centralism”
The people who wrote these words, those who live by them with every action and breath, die at the hands of the sadistic henchman of regional powers. In Kobani, in Sinjar, the elderly, women, and children are being butchered in mass, yet they still stand – because unlike every regional neighbor, the people of Rojava understand the power of a united, diverse, communal society. The bravery and comradery demonstrated by the Rojava region should serve as an example to the secular, power and capitol hungry, offensive regimes neighboring it.
Turkey, once a contender to become a member of the European Union – a punishment they retrospectively deserved – is now positioned at their own border, not in defense from the Islamic State, but to ensure keeping Turkish Kurds from crossing to assist their brothers and sisters in Rojava, while the Islamic state continues its nearly 1 month assault on the Kurdish city of Kobani. Though large groups of Kurds have been unable to pass through the Turkish borders, numerous Islamic state soldiers have received hospital attention in Turkey, and then returned back to the Syrian/Iraqi fronts; oil shipments have managed to have success coming and going, as well. With masses of Tanks and the finest weaponry a NATO alliance can offer, the Turks now watch the murder of scores de thousands – as if the idea of NATO had a shred of integrity or true, positive intent was in danger of being jeopardized, this should cement a premature opinion or judgement. Callousness and apathy, however repugnant, are not crimes, but the intentional, isolative policy towards Kobani, as well as their assistance in their creation of the current IS wont soon be forgotten, regionally and internationally.
Shiite Iraq turned into a force no less severe and oppressive than Saddam Hussein, routinely murdering innocent Sunnis with poorly planned bombardments and proxy militia attacks. In addition, various, prominent Sunni politicians were purged from government positions. Even now, with Baghdad soon to be under siege, little to no coordination between the Shiite ruling PARTY
and other factions, leaving little chance that Iraqi secularity is a fleeting concept.
How much of a region must be destroyed before NATO intervenes in a situation, from their self proclaimed moral perch? How much can a nation contribute to the creation of a murderous proxy army before their guilt is equal to that of the acting perpetrators? It is not rhetoric, it is not hyperbole to state that the Islamic state would not exist but for the efforts of, and the funding by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and Turkey. With the exception of a few recently revoked comments by the Vice President of the US, Joe Biden, no consequences have come to these war criminals.
As those is Rojava prove, there can be so much beauty in this world, but we will never see it waiting for despots, those from the first and third world, to show it to us. Alienated from even regional, Kurdish powers, the diverse population of Rojava has only relied on themselves to make it to this point. The Kurdish leadership of Iraq has abandoned the YPG of Syria, favoring the steady income from Turkey over the lives of comrades. Ask an Azzidi in Sinjar where their support has come from, and you will be told that there have been no sightings of Peshmerga troops, rather only the YPG has assisted in preventing the genocide of thousands. Stand together with those you were told to hate without questioning, ignore the false enticement of buying freedom by selling yourselves, and recognize that within so many ruling government, there exists an uncaring, desperately clinging, antisocial, greed filled heart. In times of crisis, though horrendous to live through, we get to see exactly what the darkest shade of black looks like – and its all around us.
The nights ablaze with a million flames
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