Posted on 08/07/2015 12:37:52 PM PDT by FR_addict
In Al Jazeera’s latest Head to Head episode, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Michael Flynn confirms to Mehdi Hasan that not only had he studied the DIA memo predicting the West’s backing of an Islamic State in Syria when it came across his desk in 2012, but even asserts that the White House’s sponsoring of radical jihadists (that would emerge as ISIL and Nusra) against the Syrian regime was “a willful decision.”
Amazingly, Flynn actually took issue with the way interviewer Mehdi Hasan posed the question—Flynn seemed to want to make it clear that the policies that led to the rise of ISIL were not merely the result of ignorance or looking the other way, but the result of conscious decision making:
Hasan: You are basically saying that even in government at the time you knew these groups were around, you saw this analysis, and you were arguing against it, but who wasn’t listening? Flynn: I think the administration. Hasan: So the administration turned a blind eye to your analysis? Flynn: I don’t know that they turned a blind eye, I think it was a decision. I think it was a willful decision. Hasan: A willful decision to support an insurgency that had Salafists, Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood? Flynn: It was a willful decision to do what they’re doing.
Hasan himself expresses surprise at Flynn’s frankness during this portion of the interview. While holding up a paper copy of the 2012 DIA report declassified through FOIA, Hasan reads aloud key passages such as, “there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist principality in Eastern Syria, and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at levantreport.com ...
We created this atrocity.
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Anyone except an Obama worshiper knew that. I just read where Planned Parenthood has been selling baby body for 15 years. For them to be able to do this, both political parties and the American people would have had to turn a blind eye and wink. Perhaps this is the reason God allowed Satan to install barrack Obama in the White House.
BTTT!
“Anyone except an Obama worshiper knew that. I just read where Planned Parenthood has been selling baby body for 15 years. For them to be able to do this, both political parties and the American people would have had to turn a blind eye and wink. Perhaps this is the reason God allowed Satan to install barrack Obama in the White House”.
Occasionally, I see this point mentioned on FR, which validates what we know WILL happen as Christians. Ultimately, it won’t matter which man/woman is in charge, as ALL human government systems will fail. However, it is disheartening to watch the fabric of our society being shredded before our eyes, especially if the majority of our lives have been lived under economic prosperity and a stable/safe political system.
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don’t forget Linda Warmonger....
While you’re right, he’s just a follower.
When McStain retires, Linda will be lost.
If you watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG3j8OYKgn4 you can see that the text above is a twisted version of what Flynn said.
The DIA paper is an Intelligence Information Report, in other words it is raw, not finally unevaluated intelligence. In this case
http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Pg.-291-Pgs.-287-293-JW-v-DOD-and-State-14-812-DOD-Release-2015-04-10-final-version11.pdf
it is info that if nothing is done there might be bad consequences such as a salfist governed area. Russian propaganda, like the article in this thread is trying to make this look as if ISIS was planned and organized by the US.
If you want to know about ISIS/Daesh read
An interview with NOW columnist Michael Weiss and Syrian analyst Hassan Hassan, who have just co-written a book on ISIS
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/10questions/564821-inside-isis
these articles<.
http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/issue/view/53
https://kyleorton1991.wordpress.com/2015/07/21/demise-of-an-ex-saddamist-in-libya/
The Obama administration is micromanaging the foreign policy from the WH (NSC) https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-the-obama-white-house-runs-foreign-policy/2015/08/04/2befb960-2fd7-11e5-8353-1215475949f4_story.html
Furthermore they are driven by idealistic views of how the world should be; democratic and peaceful and not how it is.
This incompetence allowed Russia to invade Ukraine, replace US in Egypt, threaten Europe, etc.
I believe there are other factors that helped bring it into being too, but our fingers were in there, and we were part of the problem.
Is Russia going to blow that up and exploit it to it's advantage? Of course. Why wouldn't it?
The question for us is, what in the Sam Hell would possess us to arm and fund al Qaeda intentionally?
That right there is bad enough, even without the resulting impact on ISIS dynamics.
We did the same damned things with the Muslim Brotherhood, and Obama even has their representatives advising him within the White House.
This is one hair away from treason with regards to Iraq.
I’m horrified you were part of this; I thought better of Freepers.
Thankfully, I had nothing to do with it.
“I’m horrified you were part of this; I thought better of Freepers.”
Cute.
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