ERADICATING ISIS

  WORLD PROBLEM AND SOLUTIONS

At the sound of a ballistic missile, no one ever saw it coming, not the UN...PENTAGON still rallying on past victory over the Al-Qaida Sect. even the NATO was relaxed. World Military Forces with all their entrants never thought, nor expected that there will be a sudden emergent or resurrection of a “MESSIANIC -terrorist” group more terrifying, dire and diabolic than the Al-Qaeda Islamic group who met her waterloo in 2004.

Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian Islamist birthed the ISIS terrorist group in 2004, a terrorist group more terrifying and dire than the Al-Qaeda Islamic sect. The terrorist group from abinitio called ISI got its household name ISIS after the death of Al-Zarqawi and Abu Ayyub Al-Masri (an Egyptian), both leaders of the group respectively within 2004-2010. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi emerged as the new head of the group in 2010, a militant who joined the movement previously.

As at 2014, ISIS controlled more than 34,000 square miles in Syria and Iraq, from the Mediterranean coast to south of Baghdad.

Reports from the United Nations In 2015 revealed the Islamic-sect to be holding 3,500 people as slaves… Most of the enslaved were women and children from the Yazidi community, but some were from other ethnic and religious minority communities.

Research and careful investigation revealed that the ISIS have carried out more than 143 attacks in 29 countries and killed up to 2,043 people and injured thousands more in the last 10years. One won’t forget the 2016 bloodiest attack in France where a man drove a truck through crowds in Nice, killing 84 people and injuring dozens more. We can talk of the recent terrorist attack in Grenfell Tower London and Spain very much fresh in heart.

 

In June 2014, Baghdadi announced the creation of a caliphate (a theological empire).By then, ISIS had captured large swaths of Syria and Iraq with the likes of other radical Islamic groups around the world; Nigeria, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan and Afghanistan pledging allegiance to ISIS.

Bombing and physical power will not resolve the overall problem of Terrorism in the world. If all, NATO and Pentagon can do is bomb and missile the Terrorist Islamic States other terrorist organizations will surely spring up in what would continue to be an ungoverned space just like what happened in 2004 with the Al-Qaeda group. My postulation is... we need a coherent political solution, which will best be constructed through diplomacy, not the war rooms of the Pentagon, NATO and Moscow. In as much as I understand the fact that there’s the need for physical power against ISIS we also need the intellectual power to solve the complex web of challenges in Syria.

Declaring war on affected States is not the solution to terrorism, there’s need for round-table reasoning between Syria, America, Iran and the United Arab Emirates. It’s high time the wise folks comes to party, just like the ‘SCIENTIFIC APPROACH’ used by several political-scientist in tackling World War II. My candid advice to the International Community is…to Separate the campaign to destroy ISIS, from the political and diplomatic efforts to resolve the Syrian civil war. With the inevitable perception of global threat from ISIS after the bombings in Paris, Canada's National War Memorial and Parliament Hill in Ottawa the international community will have to come together to fight ISIS; but simultaneously it must negotiate a way forward politically and diplomatically. It must be noted that these tasks will obviously work together, which insinuates one as of a physical power challenge (the destruction of ISIS) and the other an intellectual power challenge (resolving the civil war in Syria).

We can use history as our guide. In 1815, after Europe was torn apart by the Napoleonic Wars, a group of skilled diplomats led a lengthy conference in the Austrian capital of Vienna to resolve the many political, economic and territorial issues that were facing the continent. 

The establishment of the American Political Scientist Association in 1903 eventually paid off during and after the 2^ndWorld war. In 1943 during the Second World War, three psychology professors at the University of California at Berkeley were struggling to understand the most horrific European genocide in a generation. It began with a simple boycott of Jewish shops and ended in the gas chambers at Auschwitz as Adolf Hitler and his Nazi followers attempted to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe. In January 1933, after a bitter ten-year political struggle, Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. During his rise to power, Hitler had repeatedly blamed the Jews for Germany's defeat in World War I and subsequent economic hardships.

Hitler who put forward racial theories asserting that Germans with fair skin, blond hair and blue eyes were the supreme form of human, or master race. The Jews, according to Hitler, were the racial opposite, and were actively engaged in an international conspiracy to keep this master race from assuming its rightful position as rulers of the world. As the war raged overseas, Daniel Levinson, Nevitt Sanford, and Else Frenkel-Brunswik decided to use the greatest power at their disposal—scientific rationality to stop fascism from ever rising again. Another obvious one is the Nigeria CIVIL-WAR of 1967 which lasted for three years. It was resolved through a co-operative, diplomatic and pragmatic approach by the government; both in physical power and intellectual power.

The regime in power from abinitio liaised and struck an agreement with the other 3regions before engaging the Biafra agitators in physical battle, no wonder they (Biafra agitators) were defeated and surrendered peacefully.

Thematically, keeping an eagle view on Syria reveals the obvious that the use of sophisticated weapons against the ISIS will not resolve terrorism in Syria and most especially the world at large and ‘if’ the only path to agreement between these countries leads to the breakup of Syria, negotiators should strongly consider it, including Bashar’al-Assad himself.

The Thinker... 

I personally think they could be federated loosely, rather than trying to put a very broken country back together is quite vague, dicey and could lead to consistent destruction… If Serbia could be forced to give up Kosovo, where a distinctive minority lived and which today is recognized by well over a hundred countries…If the USSR which consist about 11 countries could split and today Russia is one of the most powerful countries in the world... With the believe it can also work for Syria.

Understanding the fact that majority, with the exception of Russia and Iran, wants to get rid of the Bashar al-Assad regime. Assad’s record of torture, impunity, use of weapons of mass destruction (lethal gas against its own population) and indiscriminate barrel bombing of civilians is simply reprehensible and illegal under international law. But without Russia, USA and Iran in agreement, there is no realistic path forward. One thing am very sure of is whether Bashar al-Assad ends up to own the Sky Penthouse in the Odeon Tower (the most expensive apartment located in France} or locked up in a jail cell in The Hague, matters little compared to the enormous humanitarian suffering of millions of people.

Very well, the U.S., Turkey (and other NATO members) and the Gulf Sunni states want him tried and punished. But to get to a diplomatic and political agreement, that goal will probably have to be put on hold, at least for a period of time, just for the sake of global peace.

What do you think?