Disgraced General, CIA weenie-waver Betrayus just does not seem to get the fact that he needs to find the biggest rock he can to hide under as his former bosses look down that barrel at war crimes trials
WASHINGTON'S BLOG
09/01/2015
Former CIA boss and 4-star general David Petraeus – who still (believe it or not) holds a lot of sway in Washington –
suggests we should arm Al Qaeda to fight ISIS.
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From mishandling classified information to
a complete and total fuck-up
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Members of al Qaeda’s branch in Syria have a surprising advocate in the corridors of American power: retired Army general and former CIA Director David Petraeus.
The former commander of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan has been quietly urging U.S. officials to consider using so-called moderate members of al Qaeda’s Nusra Front to fight
ISIS in Syria, four sources familiar with the conversations, including one person who spoke to Petraeus directly, told The Daily Beast.
Initially,
Barak Mendelsohn – an Associate Professor of Political Science at Haverford College, a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and a five year veteran of the Israeli army –
argues in the Council on Foreign Relations’ publication Foreign Affairs that the U.S. should support Al Qaeda … as a way to counter ISIS.
The instability in the Middle East following the Arab revolutions and the meteoric rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) require that Washington rethink its policy toward al Qaeda, particularly its targeting of Zawahiri.
Destabilizing al Qaeda at this time may in fact work against U.S. efforts to defeat ISIS.
Many mainstream players are suggesting that Al Nusra – the main Al Qaeda group in Syria – “re-brand”, so that it can pretend it is moderate … and so receive direct U.S. backing. See
this,
this,
this,
this,
this and
this.
Not to be outdone, influential New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman
asks if we should arm ISIS to counter Iranian influence.
NATO member Turkey was
busted buying huge quantities of oil from ISIS (its main source of funding), and bombing ISIS’ main on-the-ground enemy – Kurdish soldiers – using its air force.
The
Israeli air force has bombed near the Syrian capital of Damascus, and attacked agricultural facilities and warehouses (the Syrian government is the other main opponent of ISIS in Syria besides the Kurds). The Israeli military
recently admitted supporting Syrian jihadis. And
see this.
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Obama having problems figuring out who is who? Just ask John McCain |
Indeed,
NBC News, the
Wall Street Journal,
CNN and others report that the U.S. has already committed to provide air power to support Muslim jihadis in Syria.
So Turkey, Israel and the U.S. are all now acting as ISIS’ air force in order to oust the Syrian government …
again. (Washington Blog, August 3, 2015)
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