Even if Washington directs enough servicemen and equipment to drive the Daesh militant group back to the desert they came from, it will reemerge in another shape soon, Faux pointed out. According to the analyst, American media depicts the adversary as a group of religious fanatics gone mad from a crude — and cruel — reading of the Koran.
But that’s completely wrong as the holy Muslim book has existed for 1300 years, he says.
Although the atrocities committed by Daesh and al-Qaeda are unpopular among much of the populations of the Arab countries, the efforts by the extremists to deliver the region from the influence of the West bought the loyalty of local leaders for money which can’t be easily countered among the local populaces, the author added. Osama bin Laden exploited these common feelings when he vowed to commit the 9/11 terror attacks because 40,000 American soldiers invaded his birth country, Saudi Arabia.
Since 1980, the US has invaded, occupied and shelled to the ground 14 Muslim countries, Faux wrote. He concluded that the best option for Washington is to forsake the region and let the local powers to solve their problems themselves.
