By Bob Livingston
#war #sbalich #maga #leadright #eyesrightopen #twill #tcot #middleeast #worldpolice
Nothing unites the Democrat and Republican establishment like a threat to end the endless wars.
You’ve no doubt heard by now that President Donald Trump “betrayed our allies, the Kurds,” when he pulled 1,000 or so U.S. troops from Northeastern Syria and “gave a green light” for Turkish invasion into Syria. The war party — left and right, and that includes the enabling mainstream propaganda media — went apoplectic. They were so incensed by it that ABC News even took footage of some random explosions from a Kentucky gun range, inserted into a story on Syria and claimed it was evidence the Turks were massacring our Kurdish “friends.”
By now you readers of these Alerts know that nothing is ever black and white when it comes to American statecraft. The war to wrest control of the Middle East from Russian influence is an ongoing affair set in motion even before 9/11. The globalists’ road through the Middle East goes through Syria and into Iran. It was all laid out in a policy paper published by the Council on Foreign Relations in 2000.
In the CFR-linked “Project for a New American Century,” the war party outlined its plans for manipulating actions in the Middle East and bringing down the regimes in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Iran — among others — and installing puppet regimes. It’s the blueprint George Bush the lesser used to blow up Iraq as part of the so-called “War on Terror,” a blueprint in place even before 9/11 occurred, as General Wesley Clark revealed.
The Brookings Institute plotted the overthrow of the Iranian regime specifically in its 2009 report titled, “Which Path to Persia? Options for a New American Strategy Toward Iran.” The reported dedicated an entire chapter, titled “The Velvet Revolution: Supporting a Popular Uprising,” to plotting the overthrow of the Iranian government.
The paper admits:
The true objective of this policy option is to overthrow the clerical regime in Tehran and see it replaced, hopefully, by one whose views would be more compatible with U.S. interests in the region.
In essence, Brookings admits that its “velvet revolution” would be the fulfillment of Washington’s desires, not the Iranian people’s — pursued merely under the guise of helping Iranians fulfill their own desires. As the CIA itself admits in its own historical records that US “interests in the region” are based on economic exploitation and the enrichment of Wall Street and Washington, not lifting up, empowering, or enriching the Iranian people.
When Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton started the war on Libya that ousted Ghaddafi, they were merely following the globalist script. The war then moved into Syria, ostensibly to fight ISIS. But ISIS was created and funded by the U.S. military-industrial complex along with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates precisely to bring to down Assad. Recall that “regime change” in Syria was Obama’s ultimate stated aim.
Trump, who was voted into office to stop the endless wars, has upset the warmongers’ applecarts.
When thinking of what has gone on in Syria, think controlled opposition. The U.S. backed so-called “moderate rebels” that claimed to want to overthrow Assad. They turned out to be al-Qaida- and al-Nusra-linked terrorists. Many of them sided with ISIS. It was an inevitable outcome, as documents uncovered by Judicial Watch revealed.
The U.S. also backed the Free Syrian Army, a cadre of malcontents and crazy people.
“This is total chaos,” a senior administration official told The Washington Post, speaking on the condition of anonymity about the confusing situation in Syria.
Although “the Turks gave guarantees to us” that U.S. forces would not be harmed, the official said, Syrian militias allied with them “are running up and down roads, ambushing and attacking vehicles,” putting American forces — as well as civilians — in danger even as they withdraw. The militias, known as the Free Syrian Army, “are crazy and not reliable.”
That’s something that’s been known for a long time.
Of the 28 “crazy” militias helping Turkey sweep northern Syria clear of Kurds, the U.S. backed 21 of them. Do you not see something fishy there?
The U.S. was occupying a large section of Syria and the Kurds there were thinking they’d finally get some territory to call their own. But Turkey’s President Erdogan saw the Kurds as a threat. Kurdish factions are labeled terrorists by Turkey and much of the EU. Turkey is a NATO ally. The Kurds are merely American mercenaries. Trump’s treating them as such. And remember, the Congress never authorized a war on Syria as required in the Constitution.
As Boyd D. Cathey writes for The Unz Review:…Perhaps the most pointed — and poignant — argument used by those who oppose the president is that we are leaving “our Kurdish allies in the lurch, we are deserting them,” placing them at the mercy of the Turks just across the border who have already begun to attack them. Those who make this argument…
And the Kurds ran right into the arms of Syria’s military, which is only fitting. If the Kurds are to have a territory for themselves carved out of Syria, then the lawful Syrian government should be the one who carves it, not some occupying U.S. or NATO military force.
Now Trump needs to follow through with his pledge to bring the U.S. military home from the region and not just redeploy them for some other globalist purpose.
