You definitely should watch it all. Martin Smith knows what he's doing. But if you're reading this you're probably just glancing through this trying to find some way to own your online political opponents so I'll break it down for you:
Notice that it was actually Assad who created al-Qaeda in Iraq/ISIS/whatever. For some reason nobody has mentioned this for like 20 fricking years but I remember. Contrarian zoomers love to say that Assad/Ghaddafi/etc. were actually good guys because they were our bulwark against Islamists. No they weren't, dipshits. They invented all this stuff.
Jolani = Golani: This explains a lot. People tend to get "radicalized" when they're run off their land. Fortunately Israel is now creating a buffer zone to protect their buffer zone in the Golan. If that doesn't work, they can just go forward and make a buffer zone for their buffer zone for their buffer zone and never face any consequences.
He swears he was the high-level AQI leader who was against the strategy of sending suicide bombers to kill as many civilians as possible. He just went along with it. I would be sympathetic if it was a 15-year old boy getting peer-pressured into smoking a cigarette once. I'm not when this guy has the blood (and shredded guts) of a thousand children on his hands.
He swears that his suicide bombings in Syria were different. He didn't target civilians, and definitely not civilians just because they were Alawi. Sure, Abu Muhammed.
Torture? Torture??? No, he's the one guy in the Middle East who has never ever been involved in torture.
Overall there's just way too much of this that reminds me of the Mafia. There's this very sanctimonious code of honor among jihadis, but when it comes down to it they're really all just about money. If you can generate money for your bosses then you get promoted.
Many of the leaders of the various factions in the Lebanese Civil War said afterwards something to the effect that yeah, I fricked up, I made mistakes, I did things that were wrong, I bear some share of responsibility for what happened. Now these are not great humanitarians, most of them are basically gangsters, but they at least can look back in hindsight and have some remorse for what they did. When this guy has sent God knows how many kids off to suicide bomb other kids and then he tells us did nothing wrong, I start to feel like I'm being lied to.
I'm cautiously optimistic that the future will be not quite as bad because this guy seems like he's just a sociopath. A sociopath won't hurt unless he has a reason to. The Assads were actually actively trying to be evil. They got off on hurting people. This guy though, he's just a complete fraud. And I would not be surprised if there's quite a few people in the New York PR world who were involved in creating his newer, friendly, compassionate jihadist persona.
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QRD on this? I always thought it was fired Iraqi army officers who started ISIS.
Still remember the now-scrubbed videos ISIS released before they got big of them bursting into Iraqi Army barracks and just fricking mowing down the sleeping conscripts
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That was a lot of it too. My understanding (I am not an expert here) is it was Saddam's Ba'athist officers who starting calling themselves Naqshibandi Sufis and suddenly found Mohammed who were the core of it.
The part that I know because it was happening openly in everyone's face is that every Muslim tard who wanted to die went to Syria and joined AQI/ISIS/whatever it was then. It was a fricking farce. It was worse than having our guys fight in Vietnam but not block the ports in Cambodia. They were constantly bringing in more guys from around the world to go to Iraq and fight our troops and Rumsfeld just sat around with his micropeepee in his hand sad that things were more difficult than he expected.
I cannot begin to express to you the rage I have for the traitors who got us into this war and immediately lost it.
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