Israel increasingly finds itself in a chaotic world. The West it so latched onto all these years seems bent on pursuing suicidal policies in the face of a Radical Islamic war seeking to destroy it. The irony is that the chaos that has metastasized was encouraged, funded, and born from the USA’s own cold war policy to arm and train the Mujihadeen of Afghanistan in their fight against the Soviets during their invasion of Afghanistan.
The Mujihadeen were more than a typical rebel group. They were a product of aggressive islamization by neighboring Pakistan as well as an amalgamation of foreign fighters such as Osama Bin Laden. The idea behind President Jimmy Carter’s Operation Cyclone was to enable the Mujihadeen to wage Jihad against the Soviets. The Mujihadeen won, thus proving the American strategy of using heavily Islamicised groups to fight proxy wars. The American government went on to support Islamists across the Middle East. This created created chaos with the sole objective to harm Soviet and later secular Arabist control of oil and mineral flush areas in the Middle East.
The strategy made sense. With the USA being an ocean away and Europe still relatively set apart from the “barbaric” deserts of the Middle East, there was never any push back against these sorts of covert neo-colonial policies. Afterall, Israel would continue to sponge up the rage of the Arab street. Of course as long as the West could fund the very allies that helped to redirect the street’s animosity to the tiny Jewish State.
Islam Can No Longer Be Controlled
The problem with creating a monster is that there is a good chance that monster will eventually turn on its maker.
The problem with creating a monster is that there is a good chance that monster will eventually turn on its maker. With the open border policies of Europe and naivety of the USA, muslims have been streaming into the west at record levels. The immigrants themselves may not be dangerous, but they provide an opportune breeding ground for the armies of the once and future caliphate. Even with this fact the current situation could have been avoided, but the USA played one last very dangerous game.
Department of Defense documents that have been declassified in the last year confirm that the Obama administration encouraged the flow of weapons into the moderate rebel groups in Syria, knowing they would eventually fall into Jihadists. This worked well as it helped grow an independent Sunni state in Eastern Syria and Western Iraq. Of course, when this state, later to be renamed ISIS refused to play by the rules, the game had turned dangerous. Far worse was the West’s Sunni Caliphate than Assad or Iran. Now to destroy the Frankenstein they built, the USA is forced to work with its sworn enemies.
In today’s world, geography is meaningless. ISIS has used its strength to rally disenfranchised Muslims across the world, giving them a global army in the once calm West. Chaos has become the norm and yet Western leaders, especially in the USA, seek to harness the chaos for their own benefit.
After the recent Orlando attack, calls to enforce stricter gun control laws became part of the mainstream cacophony of solutions. Not only that, calls on the right to make a Declaration of War against terrorism became part of the chorus of solutions. Both of these moves renders Americans less prepared to deal with a problem their government initiated nearly 40 years ago as well as effectively shredding the Constitution.
Does Israel Stand Alone?
The funny thing about chaos is that it is never permanent. Chaos always leads to new order. That is how the world works. The recent overtures between Israel and Russia are the results of finding new order amidst the global chaos. The burgeoning relationship between Israel and India as well as China and other East Asian countries will now only increase as the West crumbles.
The question for Israel going forward is how long does it stick with the West as it builds long standing relationships with an opposing bloc of nations? The answer to that question may lie in how the West deals with the monster it helped create. If Europe and America continue to ignore the threat of Radical Islam, opting to utilize the threat to grab more power from their citizens, rather than snuff it out, their days will be quickly numbered.