A former CIA agent has come forward to share her insights into the truth behind terrorism, disclosing where it really comes from and explaining the motives behind it.
Amaryllis Fox has spoken out for the first time in public with Al Jazeera, urging Americans and authorities to change their approach in tackling the issue.
Theantimedia.org reports:
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“If I learned one lesson from my time with the CIA, it is this: everybody believes they are the good guy,” says Fox, who is currently “in the process of getting her CIA cover rolled back,” AJ+ reports. She is now a peace activist and runsMulu, “an e-commerce company supporting at-risk communities around the world.”
Fox worked as a counterterrorism and intelligence official for the clandestine services during the 2000s. In her first public statement on her time there, she discussed the limitations on the American public’s perception of the war on terror:
“The conversation that’s going on in the United States right now about ISIS and about the United States overseas is more oversimplified than ever. Ask most Americans whether ISIS poses an existential threat to this country and they’ll say yes. That’s where the conversation stops.”
Indeed, while a majority of Americans fear terrorism, reaching a consensus on how to tackle ISIS has proved contentious. Fox explained the simplicity of the way the conflicts are viewed on both sides:
“If you’re walking down the street in Iraq or Syria and ask anybody why America dropped bombs, you get: ‘They were waging war on Islam.’”
In America, the question is: “Why were we attacked on 9/11?”
Fox says if you pose this question, “You get: they hate us because we’re free.”
However, she contests the validity of these assumptions, pointing to the powerful forces that drive conflict in the first place:
“Those are stories manufactured by a really small number of people on both sides who amass a great deal of power and wealth by convincing the rest of us to keep killing each other.”
Indeed, both sides of the conflict expend significant effort campaigning to prove their crusades are justified. In the United States, after decades of prolonged conflict, the populace is largely desensitized to war and oftenignorant of its current manifestations.
Fox challenges this paradigm:
“I think the question we need to be asking, as Americans examining our foreign policy, is whether or not we’re pouring kerosene on a candle. The only real way to disarm your enemy is to listen to them. If you hear them out, if you’re brave enough to really listen to their story, you can see that more often than not, you might have made some of the same choices if you’d lived their life instead of yours.”
Of course, as Americans mourn the most recent mass shooting, it is doubtful many citizens are well-versed in the U.S. foreign policy that provokes such terrorism. Rather, they focus, understandably, on the wrong done to their nation. But Fox offered a unique perspective that lends insight to the “enemy.”
“An Al-Qaeda fighter made a point once during debriefing,” she recounted. “He said all these movies that America makes — like Independence Day, and the Hunger Games, and Star Wars — they’re all about a small scrappy band of rebels who will do anything in their power with the limited resources available to them to expel an outside, technological advanced invader. ‘And what you don’t realize,’ he said, ‘is that to us, to the rest of the world, you are the empire, and we are Luke and Han. You are the aliens and we are Will Smith.’”
However, she also challenged the Al-Qaeda fighter’s take, arguing that on both sides of conflict, those fighting on the ground often provide the same reasons for doing so:
“But the truth is that when you talk to people who are really fighting on the ground, on both sides, and ask them why they’re there, they answer with hopes for their children, specific policies that they think are cruel or unfair,” she says.
“And while it may be easier to dismiss your enemy as evil, hearing them out on policy concerns is actually an amazing thing, because as long as your enemy is a subhuman psychopath that’s gonna attack you no matter what you do, this never ends. But if your enemy is a policy, however complicated — that we can work with.”
As terror attacks become an increasingly normal occurrence in the West — and as Western intervention trudges ahead unabated — hearing out enemies’ concerns may, at this point, be the most effective counterterrorism gesture the United States can make; that is, if it is truly determined to bring an end to the violence.
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
Finally, Someone who has the intelligence, information and guts to TELL THE TRUTH!
Our government, in particular thier maters the bankers, wanted our forefathers to think and treat the AmerIndians as “savages”; anyone who tried to understand, have a dialogue with the AmerIndian, or heaven forbid, HELP the “savage” became either an outcast themselves or were driven away or killed themselves. ‘
If the Chinese were to bomb, attack and take over the two largest cities in each American state, then held patrols to the other parts of the individual areas of each area, loyal Americans would garb their guns, join local militias and fight until the last man trying to run the Chinese out, sabotage food and utilities runnig into the cities, and starve them until they were too weak to hold on to what areas they had dominion over (by the way, the Chinese during Japanese intrusions into their lands let the Japanese take what land they thought they could until they were deep into Chinese territory and had stretched their supplly lines so thin that they were easily attacked by the poorer-armed but overwhelming larger in number Chinese army; the Japanese army’s much-needed supplies were destroyed, putting further pressure on the over-stretched Japanese soldiers. Then the Chinese simply attacked en masse and defeated the Japanese…this also worked for the Russians against both Napolean and Germany, practicing a “Scorched Earth’ policy of destroying anything that either Napolean or the Germans could use, letting them outrun their (German) supply liines and then letting the Russian winter stop Germany army dead in its tracks (no antifreeze, no wool clothing, low on ammunition), then the Russians moved up massive numbers of winter-prepared, well-fed and armed troops, with new Russian tanks with guns big enough to penetrate the superior German armor, and pulverize them!)…
KIll the bankers, get rid of the greedy Congressman getting rich off of bankster bribes, remove outrtroops from overseas (who do nothing except support the rape of other peoples around the world) and start talking to people around teh world about sharing what we have with each other.