Is ISIS running the US, or Assad?

Jeffrey Goldberg, who wrote the Obama Doctrine for The Atlantic magazine, relates, attributing it to Obama, that until June 2014 US policy had prioritized Assad's departure, but that with the beheading of 3 Americans by DAEŞ on that date, they gave priority to the fight against DAEŞ.

We had said that, from whatever angle you look at it, this account gives the image of a very naive, even gullible America.

Of course, an image too naive to be real

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What, so the mighty US, with its state and its legendary intelligence, changed its whole Middle East policy merely through a show staged in a perfect studio setting, in exactly the direction wanted by the terrorist organization or those behind it?

Because it is also clearly stated in the interview that the US, by following this act and giving priority to the fight against DAEŞ, actually saved Assad's rule as well.

Does not this chain of events alone show an open collaboration between the Assad regime and DAEŞ? Actually, until now we had always posed the question that way, and now, with this excessively naive account, another suspicion has inevitably come to the fore.

Is this not exactly the place to question the relationship between the US and DAEŞ, which, almost as if waiting for DAEŞ's show, followed it and immediately changed its policy?

Otherwise, why did the US not consider the possibility that the real purpose of such a show might be to divert the target of attacks directed at the Assad regime? Children aged 7 in the region know that the savagery DAEŞ displays, acting with an organization and mentality that has never been seen in any period of Islamic history and is entirely alien to Islam and to its culture and traditions, is nothing but a worked-out fabrication aimed at diverting the target; is the CIA alone unable to see it?

Then should we regard the CIA as a novice intelligence organization that any simple terrorist organization can manipulate, under whatever banner it wants and with whatever act it wants?

Is DAEŞ running the US, or the PYD, or Assad behind both of them? All of them? None of them?

Since of course we cannot see it that way, far graver questions naturally come to mind.

For example, does the CIA not know the connections of a terrorist organization like the PYD, which the Syrian regime founded, supported and is now using to the fullest? Is the US unaware of the dangerous dance this organization is currently playing with both DAEŞ and Russia? Does it need Turkey's persistent warnings to learn the relationship between the PKK and the PYD, known to the whole world?

Since the image of a US and a CIA that knowingly walks into it, that wishes itself deceived, is contrary to both reason and intellect, the crucial question arises: The US has a policy that it has devised while giving the impression of being this idiotic. What is it trying to do? Why is it entering into such a game, which sets even its own historical allies against it and upends all balances in the Middle East?

IS THE REAL MATTER BETWEEN THE US AND CHINA?

It is obvious that all the actors in the region, beginning with the US's well-known allies, come out as losers from this dangerous game.

Do not suppose that the attention shifted to Iran in the Saudi Arabia-Iran equation, or the policy Iran pursues in the Syrian, Yemeni and Iraqi crises, benefits Iran.

Iran is being dragged step by step into a quagmire with every passing day, and this too happens to some extent because of this encouraging policy of the US.

But Saudi Arabia, the US's chronic ally, does not gain from this game it set up for Iran either. Indeed, apart from Israel, it is not possible to say that anyone else in the region comes out ahead from this game, and perhaps not in the short term but in the long term, the fire this game will ignite will burn Israel too.

From this policy Iran does not come out ahead, nor does Russia, sinking deeper every day into a great economic crisis, nor the EU, which the refugee problem, its share of the Syrian crisis, has nearly sunk, and of course nor does Turkey...

On the contrary, all these developments in the Middle East draw all these actors into an occupation in which they waste all their energy and time needlessly.

Of course the most important reason for the problem to have deepened this much is the US, but the one least affected by this process is also the US.

The incredible policy the US displays in sustaining this crisis in the rest of the world outside its own country is not, as it appears, out of stupidity. The US is effectively committing a massacre of birds with one stone. It gets everyone to be preoccupied with one another over Syria. It gets the EU to struggle with a heavy test that is gradually destroying its reasons for existence. In the meantime, and by this means, it also blocks, as far away as the Middle East, the possible alliance areas of China, which it has coded as the real major rival.

It has been known for some time that the US has shifted its strategic priority from the Middle East to the Far East.

In fact this priority assessment had led to some inferences that US interest in the Middle East would diminish. Yet, as far as can be seen, that it stirs things up even more while withdrawing from the Middle East is, to some extent, like preparation for the new front it is turning toward.

According to one account, the matter is actually preparation for the US's future war with China.

It is already dissolving China's possible supporting alliance, making it unable to come together.

It is a paranoid assessment, but of course within strategic calculations made with great intelligence there are such sicknesses inherent.

The US runs the world with these sick calculations. A calculation that brings no happiness and peace to anyone, of course including itself. The only thing is that it cannot calculate one move beyond this calculation. It thinks it can be exempt from the tension in a world dragged into such a deep chaos, and it is badly mistaken. For this fire, which it has kindled and fanned unilaterally, will burn everywhere.

TERROR ATTACK IN ANKARA

The Turkish extensions of the PYD, which the US holds as an ally against DAEŞ terror, once again showed their vile, treacherous, despicable faces. The scoundrels who plunged among civilians and blew themselves up took 37 more lives. Every one of them 37 radiant lives in the spring of their youth. Damn the mind that still distinguishes terror into that which is on its side and that which is not. The people who died in that vile attack that day will of course be asked for what sin they were killed. The testimony they will give will of course drown in their own blood those who spilled their blood. I wish God's mercy upon the dead, condolences to their relatives, and God's most just retribution upon those who caused it. He who wrongs no one. He is the Merciful, the Compassionate.