Posted on 09/13/2014 5:27:30 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As the United States begins to deepen ties with moderate Syrian rebels to combat the extremist group ISIS, also known as the Islamic State, a key component of its coalition appears to have struck a non-aggression pact with the group.
According to Agence France-Presse, ISIS and a number of moderate and hard-line rebel groups have agreed not to fight each other so that they can focus on taking down the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Other sources say the signatories include a major U.S. ally linked to the Free Syrian Army.
The deal between ISIS and the moderate Syrian groups casts doubt over President Barack Obama's freshly announced strategy to arm and train the groups against ISIS.
The AFP report cited information from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a U.K.-based group monitoring the Syrian civil war, which said parties to the agreement "promise not to attack each other because they consider the principal enemy to be the Nussayri regime." The term Nussayri refers to the Alawite ethnic group that Assad and many of his supporters belong to. AFP said the agreement was signed in a suburb of the Syrian capital, where ISIS has a strong presence....
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who will all be ISIS shortly after going into the field or perhaps are already ISIS. Moslems undertaking JIHAD will gravitate rush toward the most successful group of jihadists.
islamism, regardless its geographical brand....
Ominously for the future, the bureaucracy now has numerous Moslem personnel that are there to stay no matter what happens in the 2016 election. If the Republicans sweep the board and elect even Cruz as president thery will not do anything about the Permanent government. Even Reagan didn't clean house in the bureaucracy and Departments. Democrats always do, thus the permanent government always increases in its totalitarian tendencies and opposes non-compatible presidents. A Conservative President will be severely limited in what he can accomplish because he will have a bureaucracy that will stall and modify or simply reject anything he does.
A Conservative President will be severely limited in what he can accomplish because he will have a bureaucracy that will stall and modify or simply reject anything he does.
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Unfortunately, this is so very true. The reality is that a bureaucracy can thwart the will of a president. It can also undermine a president in treacherous ways.
One way to minimize this is for a new president to use their political momentum and power right off the bat and let the bureaucracy know who’s boss. Start reorganizing them right away for starters. Then purge the recalcitrants. You have to let them know you mean business and will not tolerate obstructionism. Otherwise they will not fear/respect you and just drag their feet while they ride out your term.
Secular (separating religion & politics) states & rulers in muslim countries aren’t bad. Dictators there, mostly, aren’t bad either. Democracy in muslim countries isn’t a product to introduce when majority of ppl in those countries aren’t used to it & can’t apply it well except to usher in islamic regimes. Democracy is a long-term process not a product. Some have been saying the same for 10 yrs at least. It’d take decades to change entrenched islamic culture (if one tried & a few have) in a muslim country & brutal force is often necessary to keep islamic rebellion in check & diminish its influence. Why is it that every time a “secular dictator” in the ME crushes islamics and/or its facilitators it was/is viewed as human rights issues? But same remain silent when islamic regimes do hundred times worse, until those islamic forces gain enough ground to attack those who supported them? The entire western foreign policy in the ME & N. Africa has been atrocious & myopic. We’re now continuing to see its results.
What could go wrong? O.o
Exactly. He is stuck on stupid and wants another dictator out so the Islamic fundamentalists can take over yet another country.
Perfectly said.
I don’t know if Obama is just supremely stupid or has an agenda to push with this idea of arming the Syrian rebels but its an insane idea and Congress needs to put a stop to it.
I'll fix it:
Obama is using the war against ISIS as an excuse to openly finance and arm the Syrian terrorists whom he calls “Rebels”.
In simpler terms, Obama will use the war against ISIS to finance ISIS
Republicans don’t do that. Reagan went outside the CIA mainline to get his intelligence about the Evil Empire but he did not try to clean out the moles and enemies there.
Moslems are incapable of operating a democracy, incapable of even considering it as anything but religious apostasy. Secular governments are possible and will exist so long as the population is in poverty and is kept in poverty and unable to change things. When civilized countries pour resources into Moslem areas the secular governments one by one collapse or are torn down to be replaced by the religious crazies (which term describes ALL believing Moslems).
The federal bureaucracy is infested with liberals who have an agenda to fight all things conservative. It needs to be fumigated. If a conservative is ever elected president again, he/she cannot allow a corrosive and toxic bureaucracy to undermine them. Reagan made a good example of the Air Traffic Controller’s Union.
“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” -Audacity of Hope
Precisely.
Who didn’t see this coming?
Well with the news this morning Obama should be arrested for the traitor he is.
The so called Moderate rebels in Syria have joined with ISIS and Alqueda in Syria,they have agreed to not fight against each other,but to fight together to achieve Obamas goal all along to destroy the Assad Regime!
Now the pundits will decry this and say oh no what an Idiot Obama is we are now arming and assisting ISIS!
Folks this is what Benghazi was all about,shipping guns to the So Called rebels in Syria to depose Assad,what the Muslim Brotherhood,Isis,Alqueda and Obama wanted all along!
they are going to get their Caliphate with Obamas Assistance,this has been Obamas Foreign policy Objective from the start and we are Literally funding it!
Ataturk?
He is getting what he wants and he certainly IS stuck on stupid.
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