The neocons are set on attacking Iran...even if it means cozying up to al-Qaeda. The neocons are set on attacking Iran...even if it means cozying up to al-Qaeda. The neocons are set on attacking Iran...even if it means cozying up to al-Qaeda.
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Why We Aid Al-Qaeda
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| Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report. | |
| Why are we siding with al-Qaeda? | |
| Last week I urged the Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to stop protecting al-Qaeda in Syria by demanding that the Syrian government leave Idlib under al-Qaeda control. | |
| While it may seem hard to believe that the U.S. government is helping al-Qaeda in Syria, it's not as strange as it may seem. | |
| Our interventionist foreign policy increasingly requires Washington to partner up with bad guys in pursuit of its dangerous and aggressive foreign policy goals. | |
| Does the Trump administration actually support al-Qaeda and ISIS? | |
| Of course not. | |
| But the experts who run Trump's foreign policy have determined that a de facto alliance with these two extremist groups is for the time being necessary to facilitate the more long-term goals in the Middle East. | |
| And what are those goals? | |
| Regime change for Iran. | |
| Let's have a look at the areas where the U.S. is turning a blind eye to al-Qaeda and ISIS. | |
| First, Idlib. | |
| As I mentioned last week, President Trump's own special envoy to fight ISIS said just last year that Idlib province is the largest al-Qaeda safe haven since 9-11. | |
| So why do so many U.S. officials, including President Trump himself, keep warning the Syrian government not to retake its own territory from al-Qaeda control? | |
| Wouldn't they be doing us a favor by ridding the area of al-Qaeda? | |
| Well, if Idlib is retaken by Assad, it all but ends the neocon and Saudi and Israeli dream of regime change for Syria and a black eye to Syria's ally, Iran. | |
| Second, one of the last groups of ISIS fighters in Syria are around the Al-Tamf U.S. military base, which has operated illegally in northeastern Syria for the past two years. | |
| Last week, according to press reports, the Russians warned the U.S. military in the region that it was about to launch an assault on ISIS fighters around the U.S. base. | |
| The U.S. responded by sending in 100 more U.S. Marines and conducting a live-fire exercise as a warning. | |
| President Trump recently reversed himself again and announced that the U.S. would remain at Al-Tamf indefinitely. | |
| Why? | |
| It is considered a strategic point from which to attack Iran. | |
| The U.S. means to stay there even if it means turning a blind eye to ISIS in the neighborhood. | |
| Finally, in Yemen, the U.S.-Saudi coalition fighting the Houthis has been found by AP and other mainstream media outlet to be directly benefiting al-Qaeda. | |
| Why help al-Qaeda in Yemen? | |
| Because the real U.S. goal is regime change in Iran, and Yemen is considered one of the fronts in the battle against Iranian influence in the Middle East. | |
| So we are aiding al-Qaeda, which did attack us, because we want to regime change Iran, which hasn't attacked us. | |
| How does that make sense? | |
| We all remember the old saying attributed to Benjamin Franklin's Poole Richards Almanac that if you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas. | |
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Winning Means Alliances with Enemies?
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| The experts would like us to think they are pursuing a brilliant foreign policy that will provide a great victory for America at the end of the day. | |
| But as usual, the experts have got it wrong. | |
| It's really not that complicated when winning means you're allied with al-Qaeda and ISIS, you're doing something wrong. | |
| Let's start doing foreign policy right. | |
| Let's leave the rest of the world alone. | |