This is a neocon mantra; unsurprisingly, the co-author of Flynn's book is neocon Michael Ledeen.
From dodgy American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) armchair "experts" to former counselors at the State Department, they all subscribe to the laughable view that the remixed axis of evil -- now fully adopted by Hillary -- is useless against jihadis; the good guys doing the difficult work are "the US-led coalition." And damn those who dare criticizing the "relative moderates" backed by the CIA.
What Trump said is anathema not only for establishment Republicans who despise Obama for not fighting against the Hillary-adopted remixed axis of evil. The real mortal sin is that it "disregards" core US foreign policy bipartisan assumptions held to be as sacred as the Bible.
Thus the success of the neocon Ash Carter-led Pentagon in bombing the Kerry-Lavrov ceasefire deal which would imply coordinated airstrikes against both ISIS/ISIL/Daesh and the Front for the Conquest of Syria, formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, a.k.a. al-Qaeda in Syria.
Neocons and mainstream Republicans blame lame duck Team Obama for the "unholy reliance" on Russia and Iran, while neoliberalcons blame Russia outright. And high in the altar of righteousness, hysteria rules, with the neocon president of the NED calling for the US government to "summon the will" to pull a Putin regime change.
Hillary Clinton continues to insist the US is not at war with Islam. The US is de facto at war in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan's tribal areas; involved in covert war in Iran; and has totally destroyed Libya. It's not hard to do the math.
In parallel, the deafening talk about Washington now advancing a Plan C in Syria is nonsense. There has never been a Plan C; only Plan A, which was to draw Russia into another Afghanistan. It did not work with the controlled demolition of Ukraine. And it will not work in Syria, as Moscow is willing to supply plenty of air and missile power but no boots on the ground of any consequence. That's a matter for the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), Iran and its Shi'ite militias, and Hezbollah.
Ash Carter has threatened Russia with "consequences." After blowing up the ceasefire, the Pentagon -- supported by the Joint Chiefs of Staff -- now is peddling "potential strikes" on Syria's air force to "punish the regime" for what the Pentagon actually did; blow up the ceasefire. One can't make this stuff up.
Major-General Igor Konashenkov, Russia's Defense Ministry spokesman, sent a swift message to "our colleagues in Washington"; think twice if you believe you can get away with launching a "shadow" hot war against Russia. Russia will target any stealth/unidentified aircraft attacking Syrian government targets -- and they will be shot down.
The only serious question then is whether an out of control Pentagon will force the Russian Air Force -- false flag and otherwise -- to knock out US Air Force fighter jets, and whether Moscow has the fire power to take out each and every one of them.
So in this three-month window representing the "death throes" of the Obama era, before the likely enthronization of the Queen of War, the question is whether the Pentagon will risk launching WWIII because "Aleppo is falling."
Afterwards, things are bound to get even more lethal. The US government is holding open a first-strike nuclear capacity against Russia. Hillary firmly supports it, as Trump made clear he "would not do first-strike."
The prospect of having axis of evil practitioner Hillary Clinton with her fingers on the nuclear button must be seen as the most life-and-death issue in this whole circus.
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