Steve Pieczenik - OPUS 179 Kurdish Opportunists
Aired: 2019-10-10
Duration: 04:32

[00:00:02]  Hi, this is Dr.
[00:00:03]  Pacheco, and I want to reiterate that I support President Trump's statements that we no longer want to be in wars related to Klan fights or any country battles or anything to do with overseas conflicts.
[00:00:17]  We don't do well.
[00:00:18]  We didn't do well in World War I. We didn't win World War II. We didn't win North Korea.
[00:00:22]  We didn't win Vietnam, we didn't win Iraq, we didn't win Somalia, Sudan, Libya, I can go on and on and on.
[00:00:29]  I'm in the business of taking out regimes, I'm in the business of taking out leaders.
[00:00:34]  When I went into Syria, when I went into Afghanistan, When I went into Iran, I warned our people, particularly the CIA, which was highly dysfunctional, run by people like Petraeus, Bolton, Neel Kahn, and they decided they wanted to go into Syria.
[00:00:51]  I said, that's very dangerous.
[00:00:53]  Bashar Assad is an Alawite.
[00:00:55]  He's not a Muslim.
[00:00:56]  He's an Alawite.
[00:00:57]  They control all of Syria, northern Syria and has Kurds.
[00:01:01]  There are about 2 million Kurds.
[00:01:03]  There are over 40 million Kurds all over the world.
[00:01:06]  15 million in Turkey.
[00:01:08]  They're in the southeastern section of Turkey and they're in the northeastern section of Syria.
[00:01:14]  The Kurds have been opportunistic.
[00:01:16]  They're PKK, They're YPG. They will do whatever that we need them to do because we pay them a lot of money in the same way that we pay Erdogan a lot of money.
[00:01:26]  We created ISIS. ISIS was created under Obama, Brennan, Clinton.
[00:01:31]  ISIS was the artifact of the invasion of Iraq, which was a disaster thanks to John Bolton, Zal-Mikhala Zad, the neocons.
[00:01:41]  And as a result of that, the Iranians came out as winners.
[00:01:45]  And in turn, we had Kurdistan in the north of Iraq.
[00:01:50]  Barzani runs that.
[00:01:51]  As a result, ISIS went into Syria.
[00:01:54]  It was totally composed of Turkish soldiers who allowed the ISIS and al-Qaeda people to come right through Turkey.
[00:02:01]  We funded it.
[00:02:02]  And at the same time, we funded a counterinsurgency against ISIS. So we're in the business of making war against ourselves.
[00:02:10]  War is not a very good business.
[00:02:12]  Even Eisenhower said, beware the military industrial complex.
[00:02:17]  And what is war good for?
[00:02:18]  Absolutely nothing.
[00:02:19]  But let me tell you very clearly, Iran is a very strong power.
[00:02:24]  It will not tolerate any of these conflicts in the Middle East.
[00:02:27]  It will use its own Kurds, which are located in the southeast corner of Iran.
[00:02:32]  There are about two million Kurds, as I said, in northern Syria.
[00:02:36]  They will not be harmed.
[00:02:38]  The ISIS soldiers who are escaped will be captured.
[00:02:42]  We do not need to put our own soldiers in harm's way.
[00:02:45]  We can use mercenaries.
[00:02:47]  That's why we have Eric Prince.
[00:02:49]  And he in turn had Blackwater.
[00:02:50]  Now he has a new mercenary unit out of UAE. The Israelis, if they want to, can help us because they now have over 200,000 Kurds.
[00:03:00]  So the Kurds are located all over the world.
[00:03:03]  But primarily, the Kurds will serve whoever serves their interests.
[00:03:07]  At that particular point in time, We had an interest to fight ISIS because we created ISIS. Remember one axiom.
[00:03:16]  The business of foreign policy is business.
[00:03:19]  In turn, we have to understand that we have no allies, we have no friends, we have national security interest.
[00:03:27]  It is not in our national security interest at present to be in the Middle East.
[00:03:33]  We have issues with the Far East right now, with China, with China being an economic power and becoming an industrial power.
[00:03:41]  We have to concentrate our forces And our capabilities in order to enter a new type of war, which is called cyber war and cyber command.
[00:03:52]  We are not way ahead of the curve.
[00:03:54]  As a matter of fact, Amazon just received the $10 billion contract from DoD.
[00:04:01]  That's Amazon.
[00:04:02]  Your retailer received a $10 billion contract from DOD in order to be able to create cyber warfare or provide the cloud that we could not provide for our own government.
[00:04:14]  The CIA gave out $600 million to Amazon in order to provide a cloud so that we could be in cyber command.
[00:04:22]  Let's remember what Trump said.
[00:04:25]  Wars are not useful.
[00:04:27]  We have no interest in wars in the Middle East, tribal wars, or anywhere else.