How much is this about stopping the Black Flaggers from taking Baghdad v. over-throwing Assad?
The purpose of obamaumao’s speech tonight is to cover up his incompetence and protect democratic seats, and to get money for the continued support of the Syrian spring, which the US funded and shipped arms from Benghazi to the “rebels” (moderate or otherwise despite this PR effort and before). McCain and Graham still support ISIS iow (where or where is General Petraeus?). The “rebels” were and are ISIS, and are Sunni muslims. Assad is aligned/protecting Iranian interests in Syria, while his ruling family is not muslim. An idiotic comment by obamaumao that ISIS(L) is not islamic— what an octomaroon to deliver that whopper.
The outfit calling the shots here is the same one that called them in Iraq I and II— the House of Saud, who cannot tolerate an ascendant Iran in petropolitics, and who at home deals with their own muslim brotherhood problems and anti-Saud terrorists by FUNDING them (paying them off) while infiltrating them. So these outfits which are a danger to the US, are still in place even as we dance to the Saudi’s tune.
Where is Israel in all this? Involved in the long tenuous relationship with the Saudis to effect this kind of policy and shield itself within the policy surrounded on all sides by the “brotherhood”. Lindsay Grahamnesty and John McInsane, along with Boehner are the little trio RINO choir providing cover to obamaumao, and concomitantly they all are carrying water for our “eager to sell” to the US military industrial complex. This is not Rand Paulistic analysis— this is historical and activity related analysis. (should have heard Glen Beck this AM- what a loon)
We “leave” afghanistan having achieved... what? Bin Laden dead (nope that was in Paki), rare earth metals protected from the chicoms getting them (who knows— they probably did), regime change with Karzai gone and a better heroin pipeline to Marseille? ( and don’t forget the French oil pipeline running through afghan—definitely the French are happy as is the EU with the new suppliers). And now we rotate back to Iraq—when we should have left an occupying force and intel in place as originally planned to keep an eye on the nascent iraqi security forces now being gobbled by ISIS. Sunni ex-Baathists against Iraqi wars Shiite survivors (remember Maliki has left- he was a shiite).
So it goes— more hardware to sell. But no “boots on the ground” ... not yet. LOL.