Some perspective after Code Pink calls for defunding ISIS instead of going back to war

On the 3ed of February, Code Pink somehow managed to get onto Faux News and Bill O' Reilly's show, and suggested their own way to stop ISIS: Cut off the flow of money from Saudi Arabia and other US allies that keeps ISIS afloat. They also reminded O'Reilly that the US invasion of Iraq created ISIS in the first place. That Isis/Daesh was born in reponse to US occupation of Iraq is shown by the orange Guantanimo jumpsuits their victims are always shown wearing in the execution videos. Some of their founders did time in Camp Bucca in Iraq, where former Gitmo guards had been sent to "Gitmo-ize" the camp.

Somehow it is disgustingly appropriate that money the Saudis get from oil to make gasoline funds those who burn people alive using Saudi Arabia's product to do so. It was on Feb 3ed that ISIS burned a captured Jordanian pilot to death in a steel cage. Hours later, Jordan retaliated by executing two ISIS/Daesh POW's that they had previously been in negotiations to release. These executions were hangings, though some in the Jordanian public was demanding they be burned as well.

Unfortunately, ISIS (known as Daesh to their local enemies) is not the only armed force known to burn people to death. Last summer's Gaza War was sparked after Israeli settlers burned a Palestinian teenager alive to retaliate for the killings of three settlers. During the Vietnam War, it was American pilots who were infamous in Vietnam for burning people alive with napalm. Israel is well known for dropping white phosphorious incendiaries on people, and during the 1973 Six Day War used napalm as well. While there is lots of online speculation and jokes Jordan dropping napalm on Daesh, I have not been able to find any evidence that the Jordanian Air Force even posesses this long-banned weapon.

At any rate, during Summer 2014 Daesh's conventional armed forces were barely more than a single division, I doubt they are more than three divisions now. Surely Jordan's army is far larger and does not require US troops to defeat a far smaller opponent. Also, it is worth remembering that after months of siege the PKK managed to defeat Daesh in Kobane even though US ally Turky collaborated with Daesh to isolate Kobane from other Kurdish fighters. There has been much talk on Anarchist News comparing the defense of Kobane by forces putting into practice elements of anarchist political theory to anarchist fighters in the Spanish Civil War. While the US prefers to fight with drones, Kurdish anarchists and other progressives have been on the ground fighting up close and personal against Daesh.Days ago they managed to expel Daesh outright from Kobane. Obama is taking credit for that because of US airstrikes, but it was not his forces doing the bloody ground fighting, and not his snipers turning Kobane into the Stalingrad of the Middle East.

Here is a pair of interviews on Anarchist News with Turkish anarchists supporting the fighters in Kobane

The name "Daesh" is a literal acronym of the Arabic name al-Dawla al-Islamiya al-Iraq al-Sham. That name means "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" often acronymed ISIL elswhere. In Arabic, however, it is very close to the word Daes, meaning "one who crushes something underfoot." Another close march is Dahes, meaning "one who sows discord." Daesh does not like these meanings and has threatened to cut out the tongues of anyone using this term. OK, I call them Daesh and dare them to try.