President Barack Obama intends to enlist the support of several other countries in the fight against the terrorist group "Islamic State." According to him, "More than 40 countries have offered to assist in the implementation of a broad campaign against "Islamic State". Obama recently approved a strategy to fight militants of "Islamic State", providing air strikes on their positions, wherever they may be and sending about 500 American military advisors to Iraq and training of units of the "moderate Syrian opposition."
US actions to combat "Islamic State" are not entirely logical, experts say. The "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" originated in 2006 during the occupation of Iraq by US troops and their allies, and after the start of the conflict in Syria in 2011, groups of the "ISIL" entered Syrian territory and joined the armed actions of the Syrian opposition, which helped the United States. This gives some experts and politicians cause to assert that "Islamic State" was created by the United States. "The United States is afraid of a terrorist group known as "Islamic State", which was actually nurtured by the US," commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Mohammad Ali Jafari said, commenting on the current steps of Washington.
However, the chairman of the Islamic Committee of Russia Heydar Jemal is convinced that the United States has nothing to do with the creation of "Islamic State".
"The United States does have enough power to create such an organization. They did not create Al Qaeda. They helped it during the occupation of Afghanistan by a limited contingent, helped, but no more," Jemal said.
Jemal also drew attention to the different ideological vectors in the region: "If any organization is supported by Saudi Arabia, it means that it is not supported by Qatar, and if it is assisted by Qatar, it means that it is hated by Saudi Arabia. Here the vector is distributed in such a way that "Dzhabhat-en-Nusra" is supported by Saudi Arabia and "Islamic State" by Qatar. The USA proposes creating a common front against the organization, and Iran's refusal to respond to this proposal is explained by the fact that such a common front may be used as a pretext to strike on Syria, to return to the region. Behind this is a deeper geopolitical game, because the organization "Islamic State" actually has an anti-Saudi vector."
According to Jemal, now the Islamic world is split not only along the line between Shiites and Sunnis, but there is a split within the Shiite world and within the Sunni world. Moreover, "there are two models of Sunni radicalism. Previously they were divided into jihadi Salafis and non-jihadi groups, who kept out of politics, outside of armed confrontation. Today there is an ideological split in the camp of the jihadists themselves. And there is a possibility to use "Islamic State" to put pressure on that camp which is represented by a combination of forces, including Washington, Riyadh, Cairo, and Israel. So there is formed a kind of agreement between Ankara and Tehran, and maybe Qatar, despite the fact that it was under huge pressure from the Saudis, and some informal organizations that create highly unstable fields, complicating the presence of NATO and the United States in the region."
In addition, the management of "Islamic State" refers to the "heritage of political Ba'athism", so this is a complex combination and there are some analysts who predict that, after some time, Russia will throw a theme that "Islamic State" is linked to the interests of Moscow, which is a factor of pressure on the West. "There will be an attempt to bargain between Moscow and the West over the fate of "Islamic State" - it is also one of the myths. Nevertheless myths are actively being built around the organization and are part of the political space."
