Posted on 10/20/2020 6:05:46 PM PDT by xomething
I wondered that sparked interview with Max Abrahms on ABC Australia yesterday (Australia time). clearly it was the anti-Trump WaPo piece, in which he apparently is quoted.
Tweet: Max Abrahms
I did an interview about ISIS in Africa and called out the Washington Post for politicizing this threat. In their piece, they tried to implicate Trump for the terrorism in Africa without mentioning the role of removing Gaddafi, a counterterrorism disaster.
LINK ABC Australia (see below)
20 Oct 2020
https://twitter.com/MaxAbrahms/status/1318569831516561419
ABC’s obnoxious, TDS-infected Fran Kelly won’t give up on trying to get Abrahms to call it all ISIS:
(PARAPHRASING) ABRAHMS calls them jihadists, Al Qaeda, militants, terrorists, not all linked up;
FRAN: so let’s talk about the rise ISIS, because Donald Trump famously declared victory over ISIS, pulling back troops from Syria and Iraq.
ABRAHMS: WaPo - it’s really no secret Bezos is opposed to Donald TrumP and Trump, very stupidly, a couple of years ago declared ISIS defeated. he campaigns on having defeated ISIS and that they are a shadow of themselves, and their Caliphate has been destroyed ***AND ALL OF THAT IS TRUE, but WaPo wants to stick it to Trump. I’m not denying Africa is awash in terrorism. the removal of Gaddafi led to etc etc.
there’s certainly a lot of blame to go around, but I certainly wouldn’t begin with Donald Trump, because we were involved in that regime change in Libya, which really destabilised that country.
ABC’S FRAN: in terms of the here and now, is ISIS still recruiting? hearing ISIS attacks in Africa, by and large, are not on Western targets particularly... is ISIS still a threat?
ABRAHMS: think back to 9/11. Bush declared a global war on terrorism. that forced US to fight terrorism all over the place. there’s a growing sense now that US needs to be more selective. we can’t fight terrorists everywhere. in general, the militants in Africa, have not been as Internationally-minded as the ones that were based in the Caliphate. Somalia - al Shabaab. I do appreciate prioritising which type of terrorists are most likely to strike us and they tend not to be the ones in Africa, compared to the ones that were in Syria.
AUDIO: 10m12s: 20 Oct: ABC Radio National Australia: ISIS attacks Surge in Africa
On RN Breakfast with Fran Kelly
South Africa, Zimbabwe, Angola, Nigeria and Namibia are all reporting terror activity from ISIS.
And there are warnings that ISIS has formed a base hub of operations in Northern Mozambique/.
Guest:
***MAX ABRAHMS, terror expert, Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University, Boston
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/isis-attacks-surge/12785166
Umm. That’s OK. Thank goodness ISIS is only the JV team.
better headline: “Wash Post boasts of surge in ISIS activity”
Partisan Media Shills update.
We have home-grown terrorists to worry about. And they’re not Islamic.
Anybody anywhere can still call themselves “ISIS”. That’s just another word for radical Islam now, like Al Qaeda and Boko Haram.
Always Trump’s fault, eh WaPo? Idiot Commies.
More WP Marxist, anti-Trump bullshit. Trump said he destroyed the Islamic caliphate state, not affinity groups which these writers know absolutely nothing about. They only read something and are regurgitating it without any context.
Much of Africa which is under ISIS/Al Qaeda affiliates attack is French former colonial territory with whom they still have military ties and/or treaties of aid.
Nigeria was British.
America never had “colonies” in Africa, PERIOD.
Some writers are stupid. Some are evil. Some write for the Wash. Post and are both.
How do these writers address Islamic extremists/terrorism in Algeria which is just as bloody against an Islamic government in Algiers as is that of ISIS and affiliated against other Moslem/Christian run countries?
The same for Al Qaeda in the Magreb/Sinai.
I hate stupid people!!!
I’m glad you pointed out these details.
It’s unfortunate that neither the writer of that article nor 90% of the general public understands what a “Caliphate” is.... so the writer of the article can say something completely nonsensical and people will believe it’s Trump’s fault.
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