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The invasion has almost nothing to do with “Islamism”,
and almost everything to do with the acquisition of resources, notably
minerals, and an accelerating rivalry with China. Unlike China, the US and its
allies are prepared to use a degree of violence demonstrated in Iraq,
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Palestine. As in the cold war, a division of
labour requires that western journalism and popular culture provide the cover
of a holy war against a “menacing arc” of Islamic extremism, no different from the
bogus “red menace” of a worldwide communist conspiracy.
Reminiscent of the Scramble for Africa in the late 19th
century, the US African Command (Africom) has built a network of supplicants
among collaborative African regimes eager for American bribes and armaments.
