Militias
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In Libya, bringing the myriad rebel
militias
under government control is likely to prove difficult, potentially creating a jihadist citadel at Europe’s southern doorstep.
Unsavory allies – ranging from Islamist
militias
to regimes that bankroll militant Islamic fundamentalism overseas – may be an unavoidable price to be paid in the service of larger interests.
And that means that they must stop ignoring the lessons of the campaign in Afghanistan in the 1980’s, which facilitated the Taliban’s rise to power, and the intervention in Libya in 2011, which produced a weak and divided government that remains locked in a power struggle with Islamist
militias.
They disregard the warnings of people like Alain Chouet, the former chief officer of the French General Directorate for External Security in Damascus, who recently denounced France’s provision of weapons to the rebels as “completely illegal” and described how “the jihadi
militias
have taken precedence over the others.”
By supporting Shia forces beyond its borders – particularly Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s minority Alawite regime, as well as some of the worst of the Shia
militias
in Iraq – Iran has aroused the Arab world against it and empowered Sunni Arab extremists.
For Russia, this could mean (in the best case) tens of thousands of refugees or (in the worst case) the arrival of armed
militias
on its territory.
In all these cases, authorities have responded with repression, including the hiring of plain-clothes
militias
to kidnap or beat up people who attempt to publicize problems.
It is largely the result of EU efforts, such as the agreement with Turkey to prevent Syrians from crossing into Greece, its cooperation with Libyan militias, and the massive pressure it has placed on the Sahara transit states to close their borders.
This means doing everything possible to stop infiltration of terrorists into Iraq and rethinking support for
militias.
The Syrian military and government-backed
militias
are strong and will resist fiercely.
Does that mean that Hezbollah’s
militias
in neighboring Lebanon will now become directly involved in Syria’s civil war?
Until recently, Muslim fundamentalists were discredited, because
militias
such as “al-Badr” and “Razakar” had supported atrocities against civilians during the civil war of 1971.
Encouraged by this change the BNP’s junior coalition partner, Jamaat-e-Islami, which has links with the
militias
and remains close to Pakistan, has been calling for imposition of Sharia (Islamic law).
The numerous militias, groups, gangs, and individuals who own and use weapons must be controlled.
Can using US funding to reopen Iraqi state-owned enterprises get young men to abandon the insurgency and sectarian
militias?
Many young Iraqis join
militias
because that is where the money is.
Instead of focusing on a large jobs program, the US could do more to bring peace to Iraq by reducing the money from Iraqi government coffers and smuggling activities that funds the payrolls of the insurgents and
militias.
As long as Iraqis face daily threats of larceny, kidnapping, and murder – particularly from those who are supposed to protect them – they will seek security from neighborhood gangs and
militias.
They also identify good officers and those who are corrupt or participating in death squads or sectarian
militias.
But Al Qaeda is no longer a serious factor in the Afghan war, where the principal combatants are now the American military and the Taliban, with its associated
militias
and private armies.
But it wouldn’t be easy, owing in part to the Taliban’s fragmentation, with the tail (private armies and militias) wagging the dog.
Some 1,700 clans and
militias
are battling for power in Libya.
But until the Lebanese state is able to integrate or dominate non-state militias, and until some of the raging confrontations in Lebanon’s immediate environment are calmed, Lebanon is not likely to know real stability.
To the nuclear danger must be added Islamist extremism and the terrorism that sometimes results from it, as well as ideological
militias
like the Taliban and Hezbollah.
Assad’s fall would deny the organization its vital logistic hinterland in Syria, making it vulnerable to challenges by insurgent Sunni
militias.
In a brilliant book, Loaded, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reminds us that the “well-regulated militias” mentioned in the US Constitution’s Second Amendment, which enshrines the right to bear arms, were groups of white men that raided native American villages and hunted down escaped slaves.
Since the plebiscite, confusion has crept into its ranks, possibly presaging a breakup into uncontrollable rural
militias
and criminal gangs.
In the aftermath of the invasion, Shia Iraqi militias, which Iran had financed and armed with sophisticated explosive devices, regularly attacked US troops.
These
militias
were aided by the Quds Force, the Revolutionary Guard’s special forces unit, which took its direction from Iran’s religious leadership.
After the debacle in Libya (where the Islamic State supports jihadist
militias
and has announced the creation of three “distant provinces”), Obama is understandably reluctant to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, only to see the Islamic State take control of more territory, accompanied by genocidal atrocities against Syria’s many non-Sunnis.
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