Posted on 03/26/2016 10:51:27 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
CIA's Syrian Jihadists Fighting Pentagon's Kurdish Rebels
March 26, 2016
Daniel Greenfield
The Pentagon often gets a bad rap, but it's been a voice of reason during Obama's era of foreign policy irresponsibility. It went head to head with Hillary Clinton over the push to invade Libya to the point of usurping the State Department by trying to work out an agreement with Gaddafi. While the CIA continues running guns to any Jihadist with a Qatari connection and a pulse, the Pentagon has shown some common sense.
Now two foreign policies are colliding once again on the battlefield.
The fighting has intensified over the past two months, as CIA-armed units and Pentagon-armed ones have repeatedly shot at each other as they have maneuvered through contested territory on the northern outskirts of Aleppo, U.S. officials and rebel leaders have confirmed.
In mid-February, a CIA-armed militia called Fursan al Haq, or Knights of Righteousness, was run out of the town of Marea, about 20 miles north of Aleppo, by Pentagon-backed Syrian Democratic Forces moving in from Kurdish-controlled areas to the east.
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or some in the pentagon have courage?
Financed by you know who,......
And when the Russians started toasting their a$$e$, along comes Kerry asking for a ceasefire. In over his head. Pathetic
CIA units fighting Army supported units. A bad, bad thing.
Sounds like a bad movie.
Actually, in Woody Allen’s Bananas. special forces are sent to fight on both sides of a conflict so the CIA covers all ground.
It was funny in a movie. Not in real life.
When I was in the Army, Ronald Reagan was my CinC. The junkies leftover from the Carter admin were leaving in droves. My US Army was looking good!
I can only hope that the good soldiers (yes, airman, sailors, and Marines too) will stick it out until Trump comes on line.
If that happens, you will be once again have a CinC you’re proud of.
Until then, watch your six!
Well that’s one way to make sure we win. Their roulette technique, bet on red and black, equally.
Idiots. We are lead by blithering idiots. And our intelligence services are anything but.
Until it comes up double zero.
“Idiots. We are lead by blithering idiots. And our intelligence services are anything but.”
I hope it is only idiocy. I often think it is maliciousness.
Bump
A writer who had spent time with many groups in Syria wrote a piece I’ll try to summarize. He said the problem for the West was none of the groups see a solution to the Syrian problem anything like what the West sees. They all see varying degrees of Islamic solutions, the implementations of which would horrify the West. There is no egalitarianism or magnanimity in the face of victory. If the West interferes to create a winner that winner will be as bad for the losers as a different winner would be for them. The author didn’t say so, but my takeaway was that Assad is the best solution for everybody over there. Although, he will most likely punish those he perceives as causing him the most problems. But as Assad sees himself as a leader in the Western mold, that punishment will likely not manifest itself in genocide.
Our “sophisticated” and “nuanced” soft diplomacy mavens are naiive and were foolish to provoke this collapse.
Great
Mid-East is a mess. None of actors are good in any respect. There are old enemies (Baathist Syria, Russia(Soviet Union,) Hezbollah, and Iran) and new enemies(Al Qaeda, ISIS, sundry of Islamist terrorists and their backers such as Saudi, Qatar and Turkey.) Even U.S. are included in this list of sorry actors. Sometimes it is good to see Russians beat the crap out of their enemies, and at other times, the other way around.
This is a theater where players and spectators alike are blinded by ideologies and old grudges. People choose their side based on whom they hate more. Some hate old enemies so much that they entirely give pass to new enemies.
Which is worse, Marine barrack bombing in Beirut in 1983, or 9/11 attack in 2001? Relatively low-tech Sunni Jihadi terrorists wreaking havoc in Mid-East and attacking Europe and U.S. creating mass casualties, or ones with large conventional military and strategic arsenals such as Russia and Iran? People have problems sorting out their view on these questions.
Of course, one of the worst problems is that, as you said, U.S. and Europe want to impose their multi-ethnic diverse democratic system, their version of utopia, on Mid-East.
A proxy war with live ammunition between competing American agencies.
That's "Get Smart" and "Black Adder" material right there.
“It was funny in a movie. Not in real life.”
The failure is not with the CIA or the Pentagon. It is with the leadership of both. There appears to be no coherent policy from the top because there is no coherent policy from the top. So, the various agencies are given conflicting goals that may be generated by the equivalent of bureaucratic neural noise.
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