Why ISIS Needs a War With the West--Both Have Same Goals: Global War [Picture--NSFWV]

he stated goals of George W. Bush’s “War on Terror” followed the traditional path of American war rhetoric. The old standby, market-tested themes of “defending America … fighting for freedom and democracy” were the cornerstones of every argument Bush administration officials presented to the American people in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. That was the “made for television version.”

In fact the ideological basis for the War on Terror was set forth in policy statements by the The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) in the late 1990s.

PNAC was ostensibly, according to its founders William Kristol and Robert Kagan, a “non-profit educational organization.” To that extent PNAC’s early declarations proved true: an education of sorts was certainly in the offing.

The administration of George W. Bush would run deep with PNAC provocateurs. Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Scooter Libby, and Paul Wolfowitz were all original signatories to PNAC’s 1997 Statement of Principles and their subsequent 1998 Letters on Regime Change in Iraq, flat-out advocating a U.S. assault on Iraq to effect regime change nearly four years before the attacks of September 11th, 2001. In all, 10 (by some reports as many as 20) of PNAC’s original participants would serve in the Bush administration.

PNAC presented their rationale for overthrowing Saddam Hussein as a “blueprint for maintaining global US preeminence, precluding the rise of a great power rival, and shaping the international security order in line with American principles and interests.” That was a cornerstone philosophy of the PNAC gang.

“Benevolent Global Hegemony”

William Kristol’s personal brainchild was what he politely called “benevolent global hegemony.” Of American making, of course. Professor Gary Dorrien described the plan as one that “sought to prevent any nation or group of nations from challenging America’s global supremacy.” That was the ideology that formed the basis for the Iraq Regime Change Letters.

Presumably, the U.S. invasion of Iraq was an act of benevolence in the minds PNAC inhabitants of the Bush II-era White House. George H.W. Bush caught wind of the same thinking from Paul Wolfowitz in 1990 and wanted no part of it. SOURCE 

 In an iroonic twist,Ash writes that  bioth ISIS and the US have a mutual need:  

Why ISIS Needs a War With the West

The attacks in Paris, the webcast beheadings, the brash public pronouncements of mayhem to come are all part of a carefully designed strategy by ISIS to draw the West into a broad conflict. Not Just a conflict with the Islamic State but with the entire Islamic world.

U.S. presidential candidate and Vermont senator Bernard Sanders is right: the best strategy to thwart ISIS’s momentum is one that necessarily includes participation of Islamic nations and factions that are also threatened by its aggression. ISIS well knows that.