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How America's national security state fueled the rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump By funding, training, and arming jihadist elements in Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya since the Cold War and waging wars of regime change and interventions that gave birth to the Islamic State, the American national security state has perpetuated a war on terror that justifies its own expansion and increases its profit margin. At the same time these adventures abroad have put citizens in the West in grave peril and in a state of government-curated ignorance.
The Management of Savagery tells the story of the parallel rise of international jihadism and Western ultra-nationalism. Since Washington's secret funding of the Mujahideen following the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in the 1970s, America has supported extremists with money and hardware, including enemies such as Bin Laden. The Pentagon's willingness to make alliances abroad have seen the war coming home with inevitable consequences. Today, the supply of munitions to anti Assad troops in Syria quickly find their way into the hands of dangerous Jihadis. Meanwhile Trump's dealings In the Middle East are likely only to exacerbate the situation further.
Blumenthal excavates the real story behind America's dealing with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America's imperial designs of a national security state. And shows how this has ended with the rise of the Trump presidency.
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An in-depth look into US covert operations and the goals of the imperial elites running the country The purpose of the is book is to bring semi-covert operations like those that ravaged Syria, Libya and Afghanistan out into the light where their destructive effects can be examined. Citizens of the West deserve to have the context they need to connect the dots between the proxy wars their governments' have waged and the rise of the far-right in their own societies. What's more, the unelected architects of these wars must be exposed for the moral injury they have exacted on millions of innocent people, from Mosul to Misrata to Manchester.
Trump has learned that most assured way -- perhaps the only way -- to elicit approval from the mainstream press and his liberal opponents was by bombing Russian allies. In April, after heauthorized cruise missile strikes against the Syrian government for an alleged chemical attack that presented no danger to American national security, some of his most ardent critics erupted with almost orgasmic delight.
As this book makes clear, no good can come from wars of regime change or covert operations, except perhaps to the class of deep state elites that profit from their persistence, and to the jihadists who inevitably pay back their patrons in blood, wielding the deadly techniques they had learned as their proxies.
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How America's failed wars abroad - Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria - has resulted in increased threat at home, and the rise of Trump. By funding, training, and arming jihadist elements in Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya since the Cold War and waging wars of regime change and interventions that gave birth to the Islamic State, the American national security state has perpetuated a war on terror that justifies its own expansion and increases its profit margin. At the same time these adventures abroad have put citizens in the West in grave peril and in a state of government-curated ignorance.
The Management of Savagery tells the story of the parallel rise of international jihadism and Western ultra-nationalism. Since Washington's secret funding of the Mujahideen following the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in the 1970s, America has supported extremists with money and hardware, including enemies such as Bin Laden. The Pentagon's willingness to make alliances abroad have seen the war coming home with inevitable consequences. Today, the supply of munitions to anti Assad troops in Syria quickly find their way into the hands of dangerous Jihadis. Meanwhile Trump's dealings In the Middle East are likely only to exacerbate the situation further.
Blumenthal excavates the real story behind America's dealing with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America's imperial designs of a national security state. And shows how this has ended with the rise of the Trump presidency.
Synopsis
How America's failed wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria have resulted in increased threats at home--from jihadist terrorism to the rise of Western ultra-nationalism. In the Management of Savagery, Max Blumenthal excavates the real story behind America's dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America's imperial designs.
Washington's secret funding of the mujahedin provoked the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. With guns and money, the United States has ever since sustained the extremists, including Osama Bin Laden, who have become its enemies. The Pentagon has trained and armed jihadist elements in Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya; it has launched military interventions to change regimes in the Middle East. In doing so, it created fertile ground for the Islamic State and brought foreign conflicts home to American soil.
These failed wars abroad have made the United States more vulnerable to both terrorism as well as native ultra-nationalism. The Trump presidency is the inevitable consequence of neoconservative imperialism in the post-Cold War age. Trump's dealings in the Middle East are likely only to exacerbate the situation.