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I believe the Koran and Hadiths created ISIS. - Tom
Bkmrk.
Blaming Assad seems to be blaming the victim. As far as I can understand, Assad protected Christians and other minorities. ISIS filled the gap when they were no longer protected.
The person who is most responsible for the ability for ISIS to rapidly expand is Obama. when he pulled all US troops out of Iraq, who were there to stabilize the victory we had won at great cost...he laid the foundation for it.
And I do not think it was just stupid. I believe he wanted to happen to do accomplish things:
1) To be able to say that Bush had failed in Iraq...when the exact opposite was true.
2) To be able to help spread/solidify/and support his “Arab Spring,” movement.
3) To allow it, combined with the Muslim Brotherhood he hoped would become strong in Egypt, to put Assad down.
It all failed.
Thank God the Egyptian people and military put down the rabid Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. The MB were working with Hillary’s state department to help move the arms to militant Jihadists in Syria from Libya. it is what led to the entire Benghazi debacle.
Certainly Saddam Hussein’s militant supporters helped start it...but they were defeated and driven out by the surge...decisively defeated and they had to flee to Syria and live in holes.
Assad is fighting ISIS. They have become a mortal threat to his regime...but the Russians are now in there (again, only because of Osama’s vacuum) fighting ISIS the way we should have.
I agree with this, USA almost considered expanding the war into Syria back in 2004; this is historic fact, Assad cooperated with the Jihadis. Admittedly, one can say there are mitigating factors but Assad, with Syria being a transport route of weapons to Hamas and Hezbollah from Iran shows Syria is a terrorist nation as well.
US under Bush even had diplomatic gripes with the way Jihadi camps were set up in Syria and attacks on US and other forces were carried out from Syria. Of course, those as dumb as rocks and who defend Assad have a sense of history about as long as their thumb.
ISIS is just another name for alqueda.
Then the worm turned and the Hussein family used US weapons against us. And, boy was the USA shocked and surprised. SHOCKED, I mean SHOCKED! How COULD that be?!?!?!
The rest of the Gulf Arabs just shook their respective heads, all covered with "rags," and DIDN'T say "We told you so." The USA didn't even believe its only "friend" (so to speak), the KSA, when it warned the US against Sadaam. Yes, the KSA were friends because THEY had all the petroleum and natural gas on the planet...so to speak.
What else is new?
This writer really doesn’t get it. Yes, ISIS no doubt has Al Qaeda and Baathist ties. That means its impossible for a normal American to support them. That does not mean Obama and Clinton weren’t supporting them.
That does not mean that the Turks, Qataris, and Saudis weren’t and aren’t supporting them.
The writer hasn’t been paying attention.
We continue to openly support the “rebels” who self-identify as Al Qaeda.
This has been the problem from the beginning. We recruited Al Qaeda to take down Khadafi, and then recruited the same people to take down Assad. They are doing what they were hired to do. Had it worked, hiring our enemies to fight our other enemies, it would have been hailed as genius. And it would have been genius had it not been for the whole head-chopping and Christian-slaughtering PR fiasco. This makes it impossible for American leadership to take credit for it. But we have built the best armed army in the middle east. They have successfully driven a wedge between Iran and Syria, destabilized Assad with the idea of closing Iran’s window to the Mediterranean, and have taken control of Iraq’s oil. If only Obama and State could keep those head-chopping videos out off the internet.
Of course, events have over-taken this strategy. Taking down Assad makes sense as preparation for taking down the Iranian mullahs; eliminating their only mideastern ally. It makes no sense once you’ve decided to give Iran nukes. Unless your plan is Al Qaeda on the Mediterranean, Al Qaeda on Israel’s border. And a middle east devoid of ethnic Christians.
Report claims U.S. Government created the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3293153/posts
Secret Pentagon Report Reveals US “Created” ISIS As A “Tool” To Overthrow Syria’s President Assad
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3293083/posts
Secret Pentagon Report Reveals US “Created” ISIS As A “Tool” To Overthrow Syria’s President Assad
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3292944/posts
Somebody better tell Alex Jones!
Jesus Christ: You can't impeach Him and He ain't gonna resign.
This will never be acceptable to liberals.
Interesting views & analysis. The article fails to explain 2 major issues and points:
1) Ex-Soviet “Stans” one or two more than others are where you’d find pro-ISIS sympathizers, in that part of Russia nowadays. But today’s Russia doesn’t like to keep Islamists in Russia. They are dealt with decisively, when possible & found out. In old Russia i.e. the USSR, they were kept in check even more.
Furthermore, most Islamists do not immigrate, and have never immigrated to Russia; not willingly. The same applies to when Russia was the USSR. They immigrated and were permitted to do so to the West.
Many Iranian Regime mullahs and their cronies, communists, and Islamofascist included, have been in the USA and Western world, and have business & personal investments in the West for 3 decades at least. Not so much in Russia.
2) Let’s assume the USSR back in 1978-79 was responsible for installing the Mullahs regime in Iran. Then again, we know James E. Carter Jr was the U.S. president at the time. and Iran back then was rather closely allied to the U.S.
More importantly, Why is it that after nearly 4 decades, successive U.S. administrations, Democrat or Republican have failed to address the Islamist issue in Iran?
The above are fundamental questions which I’m waiting for the author and Frontpagemag to address in-depth.
So why so many Muslim Brotherhood in Obama’s administration? What about all the American weapons brandished by these barbarians? What about all of Obama’s vocal support for the Arab spring? America just changed the timetable by being stupid? Hard to agree with that conclusion.