Accountability for Western aggression needed

Lest we forget, US-led Western military aggression in Afghanistan and the Middle East created chaos, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths and human rights abuses.

After the US withdrawal from Iraq the chaos intensified. Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator, but as a secularist, he suppressed Islamist groups, especially Al Qaeda. US aggression and abuses attracted Al Qaeda into Iraq, and they spread into neighbouring countries.

Mosul and surrounding districts have now fallen to Al Qaeda associated groups known as ISIS. More chaos is likely, leading to the possibility of Iraq fracturing into several pieces. What we are now seeing in Iraq is a foretaste of what will probably happen in Afghanistan within months of the US withdrawal from that country.