{"id":204072,"date":"2015-11-28T02:13:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T02:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/in-the-dark-on-the-dark-side\/"},"modified":"2015-11-29T23:09:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T23:09:16","slug":"in-the-dark-on-the-dark-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/in-the-dark-on-the-dark-side\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Dark on the \u2018Dark Side\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The \u201cWar on Terror\u201d \u2014 now more than 14 years long \u2014 has trapped the U.S. and other nations in the \u201cdark side\u201d of human behavior, a dilemma that is both moral and practical because the continued use of brutal methods has only made the crisis worse, as Nicolas J S Davies explains.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-16441\"><\/span>By Nicolas J S Davies<\/p>\n<p>France and Russia\u2019s military responses to mass murders in Paris and Egypt echo the United States\u2019 response to mass murders in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania in 2001. As Oxford University researcher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2015\/11\/17\/lydia_wilson_what_i_discovered_from\"><u>Lydia Wilson told Democracy Now<\/u><\/a> on Nov. 17, Islamic State (also known as ISIS, ISIL or Daesh)\u00a0is \u201cseemingly delighted\u201d by this warlike response to its latest\u00a0atrocities.<\/p>\n<p>In several interviews, Lydia Wilson has cited\u00a0Abu Bakr Naji\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/azelin.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/abu-bakr-naji-the-management-of-savagery-the-most-critical-stage-through-which-the-umma-will-pass.pdf\"><u>The Management of Savagery<\/u><\/a><\/em>\u00a0as a \u201cplaybook\u201d that ISIS appears to be following closely. Naji called for mass murders in foreign cities and tourist destinations as part of a strategy to draw foreign powers into\u00a0unwinnable wars that would spread chaos, fuel jihadism and leave Muslim fundamentalist groups in control of more and more of the Muslim world.<\/p>\n<p>This builds on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/atimes\/Middle_East\/HF08Ak01.html\"><u>Al Qaeda\u2019s original strategy<\/u><\/a>, which\u00a0counted on an aggressive response to\u00a0the 9\/11 attacks to expose the iron fist inside the velvet glove of U.S. \u201csoft power\u201d and the hollowness of the U.S. government\u2019s commitment to civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law. Al Qaeda astutely turned its enemy\u2019s military superiority\u00a0into a liability by provoking the U.S. to unleash disastrous wars on Muslim countries.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq and the concentration camp at Guantanamo became the most valuable assets in Al Qaeda\u2019s propaganda and recruiting campaigns, now complemented by the terror of drone strikes and bombing campaigns in Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2015\/11\/27\/in-the-dark-on-the-dark-side\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cWar on Terror\u201d \u2014 now more than 14 years long \u2014 has trapped the U.S. and other nations in the \u201cdark side\u201d of human behavior, a dilemma that is both moral and practical because the continued use of brutal methods has only made the crisis worse, as Nicolas J S Davies explains. By Nicolas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-204072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}