© Reuters/Muhammad HamedIraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF) gather during an operation to clear the al-Zirai district of Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq, January 18, 2017.
Whenever the West's formidable military machine adds to its tragic litany of "collateral damage" - in Libya, Yemen, Somalia, the tribal areas in Pakistan - silence reigns. No Muslim full names on front pages.
Whenever NATO-GCC proxies add to their own tragic litany of premeditated massacres - across Syria, across Iraq - the perpetrators are excused because they're "our," "moderate" rebels and freedom fighters.
This inexorable, perverse, logic won't be altered. Now with a twist, because President Trump has explained to a startled world, via his Islamophobe speechwriter Stephen Miller, it's all Iran's fault.
Trump professed his faith while swearing over a glowing orb nestled in Riyadh, the alma mater of all forms of Wahhabi or Salafi-jihadi terror.
And he professed his faith after he had just sold a multi-billion dollar fresh batch of weapons to the bling House of Saud totalitarian theocrats.
These weapons will be used by the House of Saud to wipe Yemen off the face of the earth; deepen a Sunni-Shi'ite fratricide war on all fronts, and further enable their handpicked "freedom fighters" in Syria.
It's never enough to repeat, over and over again, that Daesh and the House of Saud are both cadaverous faces of the same Medusa-stamped coin; totalitarian theocracy, implementable by jihad.
The US establishment or deep state, as well as the UK's, will never admit it. So many weapons deals, so little time.
And who, in the West, pays, in blood, for this vicious, depraved circle?
Teenage girls in Manchester. To mournfully quote Morrissey, Marr in their Smiths apex: "Fresh lilaced moorland fields / Cannot hide the stolid stench of death."
