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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nThere’s this fellow, Musa al-Gharbi, who happens to be what he calls a “research fellow” at the Southwest Initiative for the Study of Middle East Conflicts, he’s also an instructor at the University of Arizona’s Department of Government and Public Service, his alma mater. <\/p>\n
al-Gharbi wrote a piece in that misnamed anti-war, anti-US website for stank-ass hippies called “Truthout<\/a>“. Mr. al-Gharbi writes a comparison of US troops to the thugs in ISIS, of course, he arrives at the conclusion that US troops are no worse. <\/p>\n He uses links to popular culture sources to support his contention. For example in this paragraph;<\/p>\n However, over the course of that war, and the subsequent 2003 war in Iraq, US soldiers and contractors repeatedly used rape as a weapon of war, both against prisoners and the local civilian population. But perhaps more disturbing than the crimes committed by US personnel against Iraqis and Afghans were the atrocities committed by servicemen against their fellow soldiers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n To support that paragraph, al-Gharbi links to an Asian Tribune<\/a> article that was supposed to provide pictures of US soldiers raping an Iraqi woman but was later proven to be screenshots of a staged porn movie. Really, really weak research for a research fellow. <\/p>\n He goes on and on pointing out the Abu Gahraib thing, the “Kill Team”, the old one-in-three women in the military are raped canard. He uses the “urination Marines”, the old LA Times photos of troops mugging with body parts from suicide bombers. He also claims that Obama is waging a war against Islam, that white Christian Americans are on a another Crusade. Yeah, we;re doing a pretty poor job of even doing that in this country. All of which resulted in people doing time or in some way being punished, but with nothing other than his words, he claims that there are many more incidents which aren’t prosecuted.<\/p>\n All of that is to support his vacuous point. Which I guess is that we should just let ISIS have their way and establish a caliphate for him and his pals to splash around in and play jihadist.<\/p>\n I’d point out that al-Gharbi also wrote a piece in al-Jazeera<\/a> that blames Israel for starting this last war between Hamas and Israel, so his head isn’t screwed on real tight. He’s kind of single-mindedly anti-West and he’s protected by academia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"