Same Old Song and Dance, Part II
Well, we have a new claim by our “illustrious regime” in DC. They now claim that they know why their past attempts to support that mythical “moderate” Syrian opposition during the Syrian Civil War failed.
They now claim that US support failed because it was sabotaged.
Seriously.
Specifically, the latest attempt to grasp at straws blatant propaganda designed to shift blame claim is that CIA aid to those mythical “moderate” Syrian rebels was diverted by “dirty Mideast intel”. Allegedly, Jordanian intelligence redirected a substantial part of the aid intended for those mythical “moderate” rebels in Syria to Daesh.
They also admit that corruption within the Syrian opposition was also partly to blame. They had no choice but to do that; that’s already too well publicly documented.
Why would Jordan do that, you ask? Well, as the story goes: because “Jordan’s biggest enemy is anything Shia” – and Daesh was opposing Iran.
Gee. A foreign nation looking out for its own interests. Ya think that might happen on occasion?
And corruption within the shadowy world of intel? Oh, no! That implies that intel is sometimes a “dirty” endeavor! This is big news! Stop the presses!
Hmm. Ya think that maybe corruption might happen on occasion too? Especially in the Middle East? Or in the shadowy world of intel?
At the risk of sounding “insensitive”: both of those possibilities are so obvious that even Stevie Wonder can see them.
These inane tall tales dubious claims by the Administration IMO show one of two things. First, and IMO most likely: they’re simply dissembling in an attempt to redirect blame for failure.
And second: if by some miracle that’s not the case and they’re telling the truth, then this fiasco shows a near-childlike level of incompetence and naïvety. I mean really: given how “steadfastly” we’ve supported our allies recently, did they really not expect Jordan to “look out for number one”? Were they so foolish that they disregarded the possibility of corruption in pretty much ANY organization in the Middle East?
And to add insult to injury: either way, they’re also throwing a valuable ally “under the bus” in the process. We seem to have gotten quite good at that lately, too.
GMAFB. If they didn’t take measures to detect/correct diversion of support to support an ally’s agenda and limit corruption, then IMO they are literally incompetent fools. But given what I’ve seen in the past from this Administration, I can easily believe that could well be the case.
Hell, given this ridiculously naïve and grossly incompetent clown krewe running the show Administration I personally believe both deliberate mendacity and abysmally naïve incompetence played a part in creating this latest fairy tale. No, I don’t have proof that’s the case. But it simply fits.
Once again, I think my leg’s wet. And it hasn’t started raining yet.
Category: "Teh Stoopid", "Your Tax Dollars At Work", Blue Falcons, Foreign Policy, Government Incompetence, Military issues, Syria
Stop giving money and weapons to terroris-, er, I mean “moderate rebels.”
Geez, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see the results of this stuff. Haven’t they learned anything at all yet?
Isn’t the term ‘moderate rebel’ an oxymoron?
IDK what is wrong with these people. I am starting to think being a Democrat is a disability in and of itself.
Hey I have that song on my I phone Lol…
Pretty much what one would expect from the amatures in charge.
Somewhere buried in the TAH archives is a thread going to the circuitous arms route that, if memory serves me, some number of us (if not all) foresaw would fail. I can’t recall when the thread appeared but it exists.
This one, perhaps?
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=48982
“If you seriously believe that at least some of the arms and equipment we provide to the Syrian opposition won’t end up in the hands of al Qaeda-linked elements – or that we won’t end up training a large number of folks who end up working with or for al Qaeda in the future – I’d like to talk to you about real estate.” Hondo 2014
That will work but there’s another thread going specifically to the CIA ops to get arms in bypassing Turkey. I appreciate your searching. Like I said, this one will do.
You didn’t initially mention Turkey. Try this one.
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=36268
Some wise person once said that most apparently malicious actions can instead be caused by sheer stupidity. This situation sounds like it’s got even odds which one applies.
What’s wrong with both?
WTF?! They left out Bush?
Yeah.
They blamed him for 7 years. Why stop now?
“The Regime in DC now claims that US support failed because it was sabotaged.”
Um, it wouldn’t be because we aren’t using warriors for strategists, but instead using political payoff people to run the Nation’s business, would it?
Our current administration has the penetrating intellectual achievement of a three-year-old. They call it sabotage, the rest of us might call it something else.
For those questions, I’ll take #2 for $500, Hodo, and the answer is ‘YES’ to both parts.
Considering the dimwitted approach to things that started back when shrillary was still shit on a shingle, and the subsequent idiotic attempts to do Deh Stoopid Things such as closing national parks with the excuse of sequestration, I would have to say that Deh Stoopid has ruled intact since 2009.
But we are not so screwed that it can’t be fixed.
What did you expect when the country was turned over to a community organizer and his merry band of scam artist amateurs? This is going pretty much to plan, I would think.
Regarding the bombing of the Turkish airport on June 28th, Secretary of State John Kerry had this to say:
“We don’t have a clue who is responsible, but it is likely Christian terrorists and their NRA sponsors are responsible. We must get guns off the streets in the US. That will solve all the world’s problems. I have discussed this is detail with President Obama, and that is both his opinion and the opinion of the State Department. Former Secretary of State Clinton, when asked her opinion, indicated that a YouTube video put out by the NRA and the Republican Party is also partly responsible. We will be able to provide more detailed information after we get a clue.”
If it weren’t for the Brit or Aussie accents in this video i would think it was somebody’s “Cuzzin’ Cletus” at a County Fair. He still acts smarter than anyone I’ve ever seen in the B. Hussein 0bama administration and i give this video FOUR Coconuts: