Obama
throws gasoline on Mideast fire
Motorists
know that if a fire breaks out at a petrol station, you cannot put it
out by spraying it with gasoline. But according to recent reports, it
seems the American president isn’t that smart.
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June, 2014
On
Friday we learned that Obama is asking Congress for $500 million for
the so-called Syrian rebels. Apparently he does not realize that the
problem he says he wants to solve – ISIL terrorists overrunning
Iraq and Syria – was created by the US and its allies’ funding of
the Syrian insurgents. Throwing more money at the “Syrian rebels”
would be throwing gasoline on the fire.
Obama,
of course, doesn’t see it that way. He claims that he has finally
learned to tell the difference between the “good rebels” and the
“bad rebels.” According to the Associated Press, “administration
officials say the U.S. has grown increasingly confident in recent
months about its ability to distinguish the moderate rebels from the
more extremist elements that include the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, which has stormed into Iraq
and captured much of the northern part of the country.”
These
administration officials are tacitly admitting that the US has been
“inadvertently” arming ISIL – a vicious terrorist group that
was expelled from al-Qaeda for being too extreme. They want us to
believe it was a mistake.
If
those administration officials are right, Obama should be impeached
for incompetence. Allowing American dollars to build and grow ISIL,
even by mistake, would be a blunder of colossal proportions.
But
was it really a mistake? Many credible reports have emerged that the
US has been intentionally funding ISIL. This week, investigative
journalists found strong evidence that the CIA has trained and armed
ISIL terrorists at a secret base in Jordan. While Press TV and other
alternative media outlets are covering these revelations, the
mainstream Western media has suppressed them.
So
these US administration officials are lying when they tell us: “In
the past we were inadvertently funding ISIL, but now we have figured
out who they are, so we won’t give them any more American
taxpayers’ money. We promise to hand the next $500 million to other
groups.”
Such
a claim is preposterous. In fact, the US has been behind the rise of
ISIL all along. And if Congress is stupid and evil enough to approve
Obama’s request for another $500 million, ISIL will get the lion’s
share of that, too.
In
reality, there are no viable “moderate Syrian opposition”
militias. Yes, there are some mostly-imaginary groups created by US
taxpayer dollars and run mainly by exiles who have not set foot in
Syria for years, decades, or even generations. Such nonexistent
“moderate Syrian rebels” are just a scam for defrauding the US
treasury and hiding the reality of who is really getting those US
taxpayer dollars. The “moderate US puppet rebels” have virtually
no support in the region and no meaningful military presence. The
destabilization of Syria and Iraq has been almost entirely
accomplished by extremist Takfiri terrorist groups. The two biggest
are ISIL (the ultra-extremist terrorists) and the al-Qaeda affiliated
al-Nusra front (the merely extremist terrorists). These are the
people who will get most of the $500 million Obama wants to send to
Syria and Iraq.
Iraqi
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki apparently understands that the US is
playing a double game: Pretending to oppose ISIL, while covertly
creating and supporting it. That is why al-Maliki has decided to buy
used fighter jets from Russia to fight ISIL, rather than wait for the
long-promised US jets that may never arrive. Al-Maliki recognizes
that by refusing to deliver aircraft, the US had intentionally set
the stage for ISIL’s invasion and occupation of northern Iraq: “We
shouldn’t have just bought U.S. jets, we should have bought
British, French and Russian jets to provide air support. If we had
air support, none of this would have happened,” al-Maliki told the
BBC.
US
Army Colonel Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, responded by
claiming that the US was sending fighter aircraft purchased by Iraq
“as quickly as possible” but they wouldn’t arrive till fall.
Apparently the US is not in any particular hurry to help the Iraqi
government prevent its dismemberment by ultra-extreme terrorists.
If
we are to believe the American government, it seems to have armed
ISIL far more efficiently “by accident” – and for free – than
it is able to arm the Iraqi government intentionally even when the
Iraqis are buying military equipment at market prices. Perhaps
al-Maliki should ask the US to accidentally send him some free
fighter jets.
What
explains this bizarre, two-faced US policy? In a word:
Destabilization. The real US policy goal is to hamstring, cripple,
dismember and destroy Middle Eastern nations. The destabilization
doctrine is set by the Zionist lobby, which dominates US Mideast
policy. Israel’s desire, expressed decades ago by Oded Yinon, is to
have the countries of the region split up into balkanized sub-units.
So the Zionist-driven US creates and runs extremist groups like
al-Qaeda and ISIL. These groups attack and destabilize Middle Eastern
countries in an effort to split those countries apart. They also
provide a pretext for US intervention in the region.
So
the US government is using the hyped-up threat of the ISIL extremists
to throw more money and weapons at – who else – the ISIL
extremists. It is only pretending to try to put out the fire by
spraying it with gasoline. In fact, it knows perfectly well that it
is committing arson, while dressed up in the uniform of a
firefighter.
If
the American people ever figure out what their government is doing,
it is Washington, DC, not the Middle East, that will burn to the
ground.
Dr. Kevin Barrett,
a Ph.D. Arabist-Islamologist, is one of America's best-known
critics of the War on Terror. Dr. Barrett has appeared many times
on Fox, CNN, PBS and other broadcast outlets, and has inspired
feature stories and op-eds in the New York Times, the Christian
Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune, and other leading
publications. Dr. Barrett has taught at colleges and universities
in San Francisco, Paris, and Wisconsin, where he ran for Congress
in 2008. He is the co-founder of the Muslim-Christian-Jewish
Alliance,
and author of the books Truth
Jihad: My Epic Struggle Against the 9/11 Big Lie
(2007) and Questioning
the War on Terror: A Primer for Obama Voters (2009). His
website is www.truthjihad.com. More
articles by Dr. Barrett
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