Cause and Effect with Max Blumenthal
Hemal Mali
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Four years ago, when Donald Trump was elected President, many of you were shocked. Many wondered, “Where did we go wrong?” Today, I interview author and journalist Max Blumenthal about his book Management of Savagery. Max painstakingly details the foreign policy decisions made during the cold war in the 1970s, and maps the ripple effects of these decisions that has lead us to this path of regime change wars, empire, Islamophobia and bloodstained episodes of blowback.<br/><br/>Excerpt from Management of Savagery<br/><br/>Israel’s ISIS Connection<br/><br/>While Washington’s Gulf-funded think tank experts spun out public relations for the allies of Al Qaeda, ISIS found defenders in Israel. At the Likud Party-linked <a href="https://besacenter.org/">Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies</a>, its director <a href="https://jiss.org.il/en/author/efraim-inbar/">Efraim Inbar </a>promoted the IslamicState in Syria as a boon to Israel’s strategic deterrence. In an op-ed entitled “<a href="https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/destruction-islamic-state-strategic-mistake/">The Destruction of Islamic State Is a Strategic Mistake</a>,” Inbar argued, “The West should seek the further weakening of Islamic State, but not its destruction.”<br/><br/>Instead, he insisted, it should exploit ISIS as a “useful tool” in the fight against Israel’s true enemy, Iran and its proxy, Hezbollah, which operates on Israeli frontiers from southern Lebanon. “A weak IS is, counterintuitively, preferable to a destroyed IS,” Inbar concluded. Inbar went on to argue for prolonging the conflict in Syria for as long as possible on the grounds that extended sectarian bloodshed would produce “positive change.”<br/><br/>As bracing as it might have been, Inbar’s argument provided a perfect distillation of the Israeli government’s position on the Syrian civil war. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/01/19/israe
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