{"id":331540,"date":"2017-10-22T02:11:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T01:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-phony-islamic-state-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2017-10-22T02:11:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T01:11:12","slug":"the-phony-islamic-state-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-phony-islamic-state-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Phony Islamic State – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The so-called Islamic State organization was primarily a bogeyman encouraged by the western powers. \u00a0I\u2019ve been saying this for the last four years.<\/p>\n

I asserted, as a former soldier and war correspondent, that IS would collapse like a wet paper bag if proper western ground forces attacked their strongholds in Syria and Iraq.\u00a0 This week, the western powers and their local satraps finally took action and stormed the last IS stronghold at Raqqa.\u00a0 To no surprise, IS put up almost no resistance and ran for its miserable life.<\/p>\n

The much-dreaded IS was never more than a bunch of young hooligans and religious fanatics who were as militarily effective as the medieval Children\u2019s Crusade.<\/p>\n

In the west, IS was blown up by media and governments into a giant monster that was coming to cut the throats of honest folk in the suburbs.<\/p>\n

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IS did stage some very bloody and grisly attacks \u2013 that\u2019s what put it on the map.\u00a0\u00a0 But none of them posed any mortal threat or really endangered our national security.\u00a0\u00a0 In fact, the primary target of IS attacks has been Shia Muslims in the Mideast.
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Many of the IS attacks in North America and Europe were done by mentally deranged individuals or were initiated by under-cover government provocateurs, such as the 1993 bombing of New York\u2019s World Trade Center.\u00a0 IS was notorious for falsely taking credit for attacks it did not commit.<\/p>\n

Other \u2018lone wolf\u2019 attacks were made by Mideasterners driven to revenge after watching the destruction by the US and its allies of substantial parts of their region.\u00a0 Think Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Afghanistan, parts of Pakistan, and the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The so-called Islamic State organization was primarily a bogeyman encouraged by the western powers. \u00a0I\u2019ve been saying this for the last four years. I asserted, as a former soldier and war correspondent, that IS would collapse like a wet paper bag if proper western ground forces attacked their strongholds in Syria and Iraq.\u00a0 This week, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-331540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331540","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=331540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}