Posted on 05/23/2015 5:05:03 AM PDT by Diogenesis
US and Hizballah coordinate spy drone flights over Qalamoun, share US combat intelligence
Another strange pair of bedfellows has turned up
in one of the most critical Middle East battlefields:
the United States is helping Hizballah, Iran’s Lebanese surrogate,
in the battle for control of the strategic Qalamoun Mountains.
...a US special operations unit, stationed at the Hamat air base on the coast of northern Lebanon,
is directing unarmed Aerosonde MK 4.7 reconnaissance drone intelligence-gathering flights
over the Qalamoun Mt arena, 100 km to the west.
However, it turns out that the data the US drones
pass to Lebanese army general staff in Beirut
goes straight to Hizballah headquarters
and on to the Iranian officers in Syria running Bashar Assad’s war effort.
Since Hizballah is also operating Ababil-3 surveillance drones of its own over Qalamoun,
coordination had become necessary between the American team and the Shiite group.
The consequence is that for the first time,
the US military is working directly with an internationally-designated terrorist organization
– a development with earthshaking ramifications for Israel’s security.
.... 3. Israel can no longer trust American intelligence
coming in from Lebanon because it is likely tainted by Hizballah sources.
6. Hizballah’s Ababil drones are in fact operated by the hostile Iranian Revolutionary Guards ...
How do Obama's repeated commitments to Israel’s security square
with close US military and intelligence cooperation with an organization
whose vow to destroy Israel is backed by 100,000 missiles
– all pointed south?
(Excerpt) Read more at debka.com ...
All of civilization should be fighting together to root out ISIS. If Hezbollah shares that goal, they aren’t the enemy.
Would someone please tell me how that is not treason.
Not inherently all that different from US allying with USSR in WWII.
Good catch.
Except that FDR was a communist and was helping his fellow traveler (Stalin) from Hitler’s attack on Russia.
Later, FDR acquiesced (and approved) Stalin’s desire to control Eastern Europe that began the infamous “Iron Curtain” of communism in Europe.
The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend
First homosexual marriage, now this.
Good God Almighty!
The Soviet dominance of Eastern Europe was an inevitable consequence of geography and the Red Army’s doing around 90% of the killing of German soldiers.
We could have refused, perhaps, to accept the legitimacy of that dominance while the War was still on, and perhaps that would have made the conquest of Germany more difficult, resulting in the death of a whole lot more Americans.
Coming out strong in opposition to Stalin could theoretically have made him reconsider striking a separate deal with Hitler, as he did in 1939. Without the Red Army holding down the vast majority of the Wehrmacht, our attacks on the Continent had not a hope in hell of succeeding.
The enemy of my enemy is still just another enemy.
——an inevitable consequence of geography ——
The root of the consequence was fear........ first Napoleon and then Hitler.
If the European aggressor can be stopped before reaching the soil of Mother Russia, it is a good thing
Stalin’s fearful first thought was ....never again
Another US USSR matchup...this Islam in the White Mosque will bring Islam all around the Mediterranean region. Just like FDR did.
The larger point I was making was FDR was a commie and gave Eastern Europe to Stalin...and did so willingly.
Sen Joe McCarthy was proved correct in his assertions commies were at the highest levels of US government.
at whom my weapons may happen to not be aimed -- at present...
And Israel could be helping out Al Nusra:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/185186#.VWCBIlJcr7A
http://buchanan.org/blog/our-next-mideast-war-syria-15984
And Debka is hardly a reliable source. Difficult what to make of these stories.
“Assad loses battles as US, Israel, Turkey, Jordan, Qatar and UAE arm Al Qaeda’s Syrian branches”
It’s hard to tell whether Debka is consistent in their stories even.
The larger point I was making is that FDR had no way to prevent Stalin from taking Eastern Europe.
Patton would disagree with that statement.
True. However, in this regard he was an idiot. As FDR, Truman, Eisenhower and everybody else in power fully realized.
His idea was to make a separate peace with the Germans, then ally with them to fight the Russians.
While this might in theory have been a wise military/political strategy, it utterly ignores the way America works. Here we are just winding up a major war, looking to go home, and the president pitches us into an even larger war with no end in sight, against a former ally.
This might have been a viable strategy for Louis XIV or Frederick the Great. Had FDR or Truman tried it, the only result would have been Congress cutting off funds, or possibly a successful impeachement and removal from office.
And that isn’t even recognizing its effect on the American military itself. Our Army wasn’t then, and isn’t now, simply a robotic force the president can deploy exactly as he chooses. How do you think American soldiers in western Germany would have reacted to being told they now were faced with fighting USSR? Which had turned out so very well for Germany.
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