It was time, we couldn't take it anymore. After years of fanciful refrains about fanatical Islamic extremists and the establishment of their elusive caliphate, we now have both. But there's more, after too much time without a "super-villain", a Marvel comic character, televisions have been delivered to him a few days ago directly at home.
His name is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the choreographers have taken a big step forward. We grew up with Hitler's mustache rituals and then passed (skipping some of them) to the beloved Saddam (in the film version of South Park he was so bad that even the devil was kneeling!), To get to Osama Bin Laden for a couple of decades it represented absolute evil.
However, the uniforms of the former or the whiteness of the last garments did not go. And certainly could not be the appearance on the scene of an Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram to represent a serious (especially lasting ...) novelty, there was need for a new look.
Here comes the "man in black", the Caliph!
In fact, we had been wondering for some time who was at the head of the caliphate. Every kingdom must have a king.
In the newspapers, experts and analysts will tell us about the background of a hard life, of imprisonment and of redemption through violence against Westerners and fellow terrorists, of the logic, of fundamentalism, of links interrupted with Al Qaeda ...
Defense Online is a newspaper open to all opinions and visions. As a director, however, in this case, I believe we should avoid believing everything that suddenly comes to us and limit ourselves to the teaching of the ancient Romans, pragmatic people who claimed pecunia nerbus belli.
This is because we know that there are three fundamental elements to win a war: money, secondly money and only the last aspect ... even more money!
We need billions, not millions of dollars to do certain businesses.
So we will certainly not analyze the stage, but to ask ourselves: Who detaches and above all can afford to sign certain checks?
Andrea Cucco
