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Politics : President Joe Biden -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jamie153 who wrote (1597)	5/12/2021 3:12:47 PM
From: Les H	2 Recommendations Recommended By Broken_Clock Thomas M. Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12182

It was laid out in detail after the Benghazi embassy annex incident and in summary after Gen. Michael Flynn leaked the Pentagon report on Syria. Various governments maintained armories in close proximity to the annex to receive weapons from the CIA and ship them to Syria by way of the ports of Tripoli, Libya and Ceyhan, Turkey. The US and NATO maintained command and control centers to coordinate the Free Syrian Army and the jihadist militias at the Incirilik NATO base. You could google articles on that incident, the Flynn DIA report, or the Seymour Hirsch article on the Rat Line from Libya to Syria. After the Flynn leaked the report showing US support for the terrorist groups, the US started with the nonsense that they were now training and working with 'moderate' jihadist groups. These merely turned out to be pass-through entities to funnel resources to ISIS, Al Qaeda, and other groups as they often engaged in firefights where no one was killed, the weapons and vehicles were left abandoned for ISIS, and some of the 'moderates' joining these groups. What the US is doing now is a variation on the old strategy of staging a fake civil war by creating and training a group of ex-soldiers from countries they're waging war against, such as the Cuban Exiles, Nicaraguan Contras, and the Free Syrian Army. In the new approach, they're also using mercenary jihadists as in Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan. Western Europe was also providing fighters to the wars in Libya and Syria. Radical clerics were employed by the governments to recruit men to go overseas and join ISIS. The governments were warned in 2013 about the potential blowback when these fighters, many of them with criminal backgrounds, returned to Western Europe. These wars are not fooling people who followed the wars from the beginning and tracked the developments before the governments started to clamp down on the coverage around 2015. I've followed the two wars since 2011. I would not waste time with a lot of the material written after 2014 as the governments clamped down media coverage, especially after British PM Cameron threatened to take over news outlets that revealed what the UK was doing in Libya and Syria. My recollection is that the war against Syria was set in motion in 2005. There were the Damascus US embassy cable leaks that indicated that was their plan. As with Libya, the US offered to normalize relations with Syria but Assad rejected the overtures after seeing what happened with Gaddafi (after he normalized diplomatic relations and gave up chemical and biological weapons). So, this is not a left/right or Biden/Trump issue. It's bigger than that.