Sheesh, is it dementia? Is it willful blindness? Is it the quest for the Nobel Peace Prize? What the hell is John Kerry doing marching to the orders of Barack Obama and Susan Rice? C’mon America, you low information types have a duty to pay attention, start here.
Iran is a state sponsor of terror, the historical facts prove that. Iran was named a terror state in 1984 by the State Department. Surely Kerry has the memo on that. Okay, so in case the reader and even John Kerry along with Marie Harf, Jen Psaki should check with Victoria Nuland on this…oh wait…let us review some factual history.
It should also be noted that the State Department has its own intelligence division and situation room such that real-time intelligence reports are created and received there as well as in the White House, ignorance is no excuse, except for State Department leadership.
Last Thursday marked the 31st anniversary of Hezbollah’s twin attack on the US Marine barracks and the French paratroopers base in Beirut in 1983. The date passed quietly; ancient history as far as the Obama White House is concerned. Then it is important to know that Iran supports Palestinian terror organizations. Even the liberal think tank the Brookings Institute gave detailed testimony to Congress just two years ago about Iran and their terrorism activities.
Now lets bring this forward to Syria as Assad has fighters fighting within his regime from Afghanistan. This is especially chilling as they are paid transplants coordinated by whom? IRAN !!
“My name is Sayed Ahmad Hussaini. The Iranians pay people like me to come here and fight. I am from Afghanistan and I am an immigrant in Iran. The Iranians brought us to Syria to fight to defend the Zainab shrine. I don’t want to fight anymore.”
He says he wants to go home, and that he was paid about $500 a month to fight. There are many Afghan immigrants in Iran, trying to find some shelter from the decades of war that have torn apart their land. He says he was trained and then sent to assist the regime.
It is potentially a serious development in the Syrian war, and explains in some ways how the Syrian regime has gained ground in some areas after months of appearing exhausted.
So understand this, John Kerry and the White House has postured America on the side of the Iranians and that of Bashir al Assad in the fight against Islamic State. But we also want to destroy the Assad regime, or do we? Assad is the core reason for the millions of Syrian refugees straining countries like Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon. Yet, Assad has had years of help from Iran and Russia, so this chessboard has too many rook(ies) and under this administration a checkmate is clearly not in the near future.
Daesh was operating in Iraq in late 2010 as well as in Syria and Abu Bakr al Baghdadi is based in Syria pulling all the strings for the organization. Susan Rice, the Obama National Security Advisor is completely micro-managing this war with Daesh (ISIS) which was not born in Syria but headquarters in Syria. The Pentagon is ripping angry over the White House designed rules of engagement in Iraq and Syria such that even Secretary Hagel has pushed back.
As the American-led battle against ISIS stretches into its fourth month, the generals and Pentagon officials leading the air campaign and preparing to train Syrian rebels are working under strict White House orders to keep the war contained within policy limits. The National Security Council has given precise instructions on which rebels can be engaged, who can be trained, and what exactly those fighters will do when they return to Syria. Most of the rebels to be trained by the U.S. will never be sent to fight against ISIS.
Maybe retired General John Allen who is the personal envoy of John Kerry can sort it all out. That is a big NO….he does not enjoy any regard from the Pentagon either.
An article posted at Foreign Policy on Thursday by Mark Perry lists a surprising number of detractors to Allen’s appointment, including many in and out of uniform. The most obvious rift comes from Gen. Lloyd Austin, the man in charge of Central Command, tasked with carrying out the military plan to “degrade and destroy” ISIL, the administration’s preferred acronym for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
“Why the hell do we need a special envoy — isn’t that what [Secretary of State] John Kerry’s for?” a senior officer close to Austin told Perry, of the potential for confusion since Gen. Allen reports directly to President Obama.
Allen, 60, was given an incredibly difficult task upon his appointment. With the Islamic State consuming much of Iraq and Syria and boasting roughly 31,000 fighters, his role as special envoy is to “help build and sustain the coalition,” and coordinate their efforts, according to the State Department.
But Allen — now inside the State Department and no longer wearing military rank — commands a role not very far outside the scope of duties of Gen. Austin at Centcom, who is charged with overseeing relationships, offering military support, and carrying out operations when necessary in 20 Middle Eastern countries, including Iraq and Syria.
Simply in summary, just wait until after the mid-term elections, maybe everyone will have more flexibility. Iran is enjoying most of it now courtesy of John Kerry the White House dissed soldier on diplomacy.
Sheesh…
Sunni IS is no more and no less jihadist in ideology and behavior than the Shi’ite Tehran regime is.
Why on earth would we want to help Shi’ite jihadis who hate us to keep a grip on their puppet regimes in Baghdad and Damascus in the face of a challenge from the Sunni jihadis from IS? What business of ours is intra-Islamic fitna?
Makes no sense whatsoever to help either side, when both hate us, everything we stand for, and want to destroy us.
Let ’em fight…defend our own interests, stand by friends & allies (Israel, Jordan, Kurds), and provide humanitarian assistance however possible, especially to the beleaguered Christians, who formerly were the majority population of the region before the Islamic onslaught mostly annihilated them.
Then let Islam sort it out among its own.