Disclaimer: I am a Trump supporter and am pro Israel so I do not generally like Max Blumenthal, especially his snarky anti Trump and 'Islamophobia' comments,. I just finished his book The Management of Savagery. It is very good and may be the only book of its kind. He connects the dots and names names. People in DC hate him. I did not like the parts where he talks about Islamophobia and how this was created as it adds nothing to the book. Anyone else read it? The Management of Savagery: How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump Hardcover – April 2, 2019 by Max Blumenthal 4.7 out of 5 stars https://www.amazon.com/Management-Savagery-Americas-National-Security/dp/1788732294/ There is a long video of him discussing the book. The best parts are from 30 min to 1:35:00.
I think that he wrote about Sayyid Qutb. Was he was executed by Egypt? I read about him in other books like The Looming Towers, maybe in the Shadow of the Prophet? The book goes into how the west armed, equipped, and even trained terrorists for their own use. The FBI and CIA think they can manage these people. They cannot. He connects the dots about the terrorists the US armed in Syria and allowed ISIS to survive so as to harm Assad. The Russians kicked ISIS butt. As a right wing American it hurts to admit the Russians are the good guys. At the risk of over simplifying, the Ariana Grande concert bomber worked for MI5. The CIA issued visas to the Blind Sheik where he took over a NYC mosque and used it to plot terror attacks.
This is certainly true https://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2019/04/max-blumenthal-management-of-savagery.html as is the reality that the US is the creater of all of this from the America/Russia/Afghanistan war - dropping democratic Afghan fighters even turning a blind eye to them being murdered, to support fanatics let out of Arab jails to fight there. Abdul Haq, a Democratic Afghan fighter told the US what they were like again and again - that among other things they were turning Muslim against Muslim. He asked them repeatedly to stop funding and training them (UK included in that). Eventually he realised that the CIA was well aware of what they were like and were supporting them rather than Democratic Afghans because they knew they were fanatic and believed because of that they would not form a truce with the USSR - the US interest being to make the USSR bankrupt. and so it went on...Neo cons of course believing religion is the best way to control a country - Christian Right at it for the US right now.
