Friday, November 6, 2015

Imminent Threat or False Flag? Even @piersmorgan Wants Action Against Islamic State.

With the press in the US and the UK growing increasingly convinced that the Islamic State is responsible for taking down a Russian passenger jet in Egypt, it appears that action must be escalated to meet this growing world threat. The last person I would have expected to see this is Piers Morgan, but here he is calling for attacks.

There’s a little bit of irony in this for me, personally, because I don’t think much of Morgan. It was just this afternoon that I thought about him for the first time since I watched him get dismantled by Alex Jones and demolished by Ben Shapiro over gun control a couple of years ago. Today, he reentered my consciousness, comically, when I replied to a Tweet:

As fate would have it, I read the first article that I ever knowingly read from him a few hours after the Tweet. I almost never read the Daily Mail, but a headline caught my attention.

This is something that I’ve been pushing for since mid-2014. The Islamic State is not going away on their own. The “forces” in the Middle East are not equipped physically, emotionally, or ideologically to stop them. This leaves the United States, Russia, or Europe. The thought of Russia taking them out has its own complications and the situation with refugees in Europe (which are now there because of inaction regarding the Islamic State in the first place) means that the best option is for the United States to take the lead and act decisively.

President Obama is hellbent on inaction. He really hopes that the problem will go away long enough for the next President to address so that he can save a bit of face to justify his unearned Nobel Peace Prize. Some of Morgan’s assertions are correct:

  • If the Islamic State is responsible for the attack, then they’ve escalated to a scale that demands immediate US intervention.
  • If there is no intervention, Russia is the only possible hope to stop them.
  • The United States is the ultimate prize for the Islamic State. We shouldn’t wait for another 9/11 or worse before we take them seriously.

Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Russian Jet Crash

Morgan is wrong about a few things as well. Let’s put aside his atrocious writing skills; clearly he’s a television personality more than a print journalist. Every sentence is its own paragraph, statements end in question marks, run on sentences are only overshadowed by sentence fragments… is this supposed to be a poem?

I digress. The two problems with this piece that I disagree with completely are:

  • He’s discussing the Islamic State involvement as fact. Unless he has inside information from 10 Downing Street that the rest of the world doesn’t have, it is still only likely that they were involved. This is a nuance and not that big of a deal but worthy noting.
  • He’s conspicuously calling for action through outrage. Yes, we should be outraged by what the Islamic State does. We should have been outraged enough over a year ago to do something about them when they were smaller. Nevertheless, his outrage is suspicious.

Why is it suspicious? The acute conspiracy theory alarms in me are ringing…

Stomaching War is Easier with an Incident

The United States is not the only country to have allegedly used false flag attacks in order to engage in a war that would have otherwise been considered unpopular, but over the last century we’ve definitely perfected it. This would be a harder one to prove than the Gulf of Tonkin incident because the powers that be are more sophisticated than they were in the past, but it’s not out of the question.

Here’s the scenario. The first response to Islamic State claims that they took down the plane were skeptical across the board. They are well-funded and clearly have the desire to do such things, but hitherto they haven’t demonstrated the level of coordination and resources necessary to perpetrate the act.

Maybe they weren’t before, but if it turns out that they did it this time, it’s very likely that they would have needed assistance. It smells like the type of assistance that can only come from the most covert and strategically sound of covert organizations, of which there are only really four. No need to name names.

There are two possible reasons, not mutually exclusive, for this to be a play perpetrated by the Islamic State with assistance from outside forces. First, it would help to cast doubt in Russia itself among the citizens who have approved of President Vladimir Putin’s actions in Syria thus far. If strife and protests can be sparked based upon Russian civilians dying at the hands of the Islamic State, the resolute Russians might start second guessing their actions. Then again, they might start going in further. There are reason from a western perspective to find either scenario as a positive effect.

The second scenario is escalation by US and British forces. The press is being steered towards guiding the people towards fear and anger. The fact that Morgan and the Daily Mail are diving in with hawkish opinions is conspicuous.

We won’t know what manipulations are at play until they play all the way out. If this incident is isolated and no action is taken by the west, then scenario one is most likely true. If the west escalates action to take on the Islamic State or if another incident occurs over the next few months, then scenario two is the lead and scenario one is the fringe benefit. It took precision and cunning to attack a passenger jet. It took cleverness to make certain that jet took off from Egypt and that it was Russian.

Most will dismiss this conspiracy theory as a crackpot idea, but when deciding whether the Islamic State pulled it off with or without assistance, the latter is more likely. Moreover, it makes sense considering exactly where we are in the geopolitical continuum.

It’s impossible for us to know how to respond when we know we’re being manipulated. All we know for sure is that the Islamic State is an entity that needs to be addressed sooner rather than later.



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