Posted on 05/10/2021 5:20:12 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Surveying the damage already inflicted on the Middle East Peace achievements of the Trump administration in just over 100 days of the Biden presidency, Caroline Glick calls that region "A Powder Keg, Courtesy of Washington." The piece is lucid, so I recommend reading the whole thing.
The damage is heartbreaking to those of us that saw signs that a genuine new equilibrium was forming, with the prospect of the Arab world accepting the existence of Israel. Here is some of the damage:
In Afghanistan and Iraq, violent attacks against U.S. forces are rising steeply. From January through April, attacks on U.S. forces increased 40%. President Joe Biden's announcement that the U.S. will withdraw its forces from the country by September 11, the 20th anniversary of the jihadist attacks on the U.S. worsened the situation by communicating a message of profound American weakness and defeatism. The Taliban, al Qaeda and Iran clearly believe they are now free to humiliate and bleed the U.S. as they take control of the country.
In Iraq, Iranian-controlled Shiite militias launched three missile strikes against U.S. bases in the past week. Hoping to avoid confrontation with Iran as its emissaries appease it in Vienna, the Biden administration is assiduously avoiding acknowledging that Iran is behind the attacks, and so it guarantees that more attack will soon follow. As in Afghanistan, Iran reads U.S. behavior as an invitation to strike with immunity.
In Syria, Iran's Syrian proxy President Bashar Assad and Iran's Lebanese proxy Hezbollah continue to wage a war of extermination against Syrians who oppose them. In southern Syria last weekend, after opposition forces from the village of Am Batana, six kilometers from the border with Israel attacked a joint Syrian military and Hezbollah base nearby, the military ordered the entire village to evacuate b
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And John Kerry informs Iran about Israel operations in Syria.
Trump out and Biden in frees them up to solve their own problems.
Ping
What took 4 years to build, takes just 100 days to tear down. It has always been such.
bkmk
This is unfortunately incorrect. Obama/Biden/Kerry are actively supporting Iran, the major troublemaker and sponsor of terror in the region. They are not leaving the region; they are shifting their allegiances in a very dangerous manner. They are Pro-China and pro-Iran. This policy makes war much more likely.
Re-read that article.
Obama supported the rebels and this guy, Thomas Lifson, doesn’t think Syria should protect themselves from Obama’s rebels.
That would be as insane as if our Attorney General, 50 State Attorney Generals, the 2,511 county (district) attorney generals and their many Deputy attorney generals decided to not indict Antifa and BLM terrorists.
From article:
In Syria, Iran’s Syrian proxy President Bashar Assad and Iran’s Lebanese proxy Hezbollah continue to wage a war of extermination against Syrians who oppose them. In southern Syria last weekend, after opposition forces from the village of Am Batana, six kilometers from the border with Israel attacked a joint Syrian military and Hezbollah base nearby, the military ordered the entire village to evacuate by 2 pm last Saturday, or else. Most of the villagers reportedly fled their homes.
While turning a blind eye to Syria, the Biden administration continues to empower the Lebanese armed forces and government — both wholly controlled by Iran through Hezbollah. Last month, the administration transferred armored trucks valued at $14 million to the Hezbollah-controlled Lebanese military and asked that Congress provide financial assistance to the government. Hezbollah for its part has launched a charm campaign on the public. Having caused the government to go bankrupt and forced the people of a once prosperous land into destitution, Hezbollah is now carrying out a well-publicized food drive, handing out Iranian basic foodstuffs to starving Lebanese along with Hezbollah membership cards.
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Did former US officials support extremists in Syria as an ‘asset’?
Jerusalem Post ^ | 4/6/2021 | Seth Frantzman
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/did-former-us-officials-support-extremists-in-syria-as-an-asset-664248
Did former US officials support extremists in Syria as an ‘asset’?
It is unclear why the US saw these groups as assets, considering that not long ago, they were cheering 9/11 and supporting genocidal terrorism.
In a bizarre twist of the remnants of the Syrian civil war, it was revealed in a recent PBS interview that the former US envoy on Syria saw an extremist group as an “asset” in the war-torn country.
How this was revealed is a circuitous route that ended with an interview by PBS Frontline correspondent Martin Smith in Syria’s Idlib province. Smith spoke with Mohammad al-Jolani, a terrorist and senior extremist Islamist leader whose group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (Levant Liberation Committee - HTS) has turned Syria’s Idlib province into a mini theocratic state.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3948198/posts
Bush had the Iraq’s voting and obama shows up and started several wars that left at least a million people dead. Trump comes along and has the terrorists killed. Biden shows up to continue obama destruction.
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