Arab Jails & American Jets
The book The Management of Savagery is a teaching manual of the so-called Islamic State, aka ISIS. It defines the techniques of deploying terror. The book outlines how a group of militants could seize land and establish their own self-governing Islamic state. It lays out how to create small pockets of territorial control and from there to establish a caliphate. ISIS has become notorious for its sectarian violence and atrocities. Its meteoric rise took Washington and all the experts by surprise. Initially, Obama dismissed them as the equivalent of a JV, junior varsity, an amateur basketball team. The media fail to pose the crucial questions: What fuels ISIS? What makes it tick? How does U.S. policy in the Middle East and that of its regional allies contribute to the instability that ISIS thrives on? What’s the relationship between Arab jails and American jets?
Interview by David Barsamian.
Recorded at the American University of Beirut.
Speaker
Rami Khouri
Rami Khouri has reported on the Arab region for decades. He is a senior fellow with the Middle East Initiative at the Belfer Center at Harvard’s Kennedy School. He was the Founding Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut in 2006-14. He was Executive Editor of the Beirut Daily Star and before that Editor-in-Chief of The Jordan Times. His articles appear in major newspapers around the world.
Reyes G –
Thank you for the interview with Rami Khouri. His is the best analysis of radical Islam I’ve ever come across. Amazing!
Alice G. –
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Suzanne A. –
I recently listened to Rami Khouri and again fell in love with this broad and deep thinker who explains his observations and analyses so clearly. Besides that, he has a resonant and musical voice. I passed my CD on to a dear friend in Nicaragua who was eagerly looking for the whys of the rise of ISIS.
Thanks for bringing him to us again.