The western press laments the near impossibility of defeating an organization that didn't even exist a couple of short years ago. Brand ISIS, the unconquerable, may actually become a truism if the people of the western nations continue to listen to the lies and propaganda of their own governments.
You've been told a lot of things about the war in Syria, and clearly most of it is finely crafted war propaganda, which seeks to obscure the forest by showing you an endless series of trees. The trees are gunshots, explosions, and dead bodies. The forest is elusive, vast, covers several continents, and we are only ever given small samples of the terrain. The section of the forest that receives some of the latest scrutiny is not necessarily the crucial part of the story. Beneath the entire forest lies an aquifer, a vast ocean of water that feeds the trees invisibly, silently, yet persistently. Without this water supply there would be no forest to speak of.
Establishing the Grand Fraud
But here is where the metaphor breaks. Unlike an underground reservoir, which is impossible to eradicate, the money and weapons transfers to fundamentalist militants can be stopped. The problem is that western so-called "leaders" have done absolutely nothing to stop them. In fact they rarely mention these sources of terrorist arms, training and funding at all, in public anyway. When acknowledged these become theater, hand wringing, vague excuses rather than concrete action. At other times intelligence services themselves willingly hand over sophisticated weapons to terrorists, such as TOW anti-tank missiles and surface to air "MANPADS" capable of bringing down commercial airliners. The nations most responsible for creating the extremist armies on the ground--Turkey and the Persian Gulf tyrannies--are close allies and even "friends" to US and European political masters.
So what in the hell is really going on? Well, war of course. This is what modern war looks like. In particular this latest proxy war targets the multi-cultural, yet authoritarian regime of Syria's Bashar Al Assad. NATO dislikes Assad because he is an ally of Iran, Russia and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Oil and gas pipeline routes also factor in. Western powers and Gulf States that don't like Assad have, like a pack of wild jackals, been ripping at Syria since 2011. The primary supporter of ISIS and the Al Nusrah Front is Turkey, which by any objective measure should be considered a state sponsor of international terrorism and isolated immediately.
Sometimes we are even provided short glimpses of the reality, by our own so-called leaders. Vice President of the United States Joe Biden said: "[Erdogan"the Saudis, the Emiratis, etc.]"poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad, except that the people who were being supplied were al-Nusra, and al Qaeda, and the extremist elements of jihadis coming from other parts of the world."
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said: "Still, donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide."
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey said: "I know major Arab allies who fund them [ISIS]."
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said: "It's unbelievable and unacceptable that more than 60 nations comprising this coalition that have the most modern aircraft and weapons at their disposal have been conducting their campaign in Iraq for 14 months and IS still remains in the country."
Former Defense Intelligence Agency head Michael Flynn said: "I think it was a decision, a willful decision."
The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) said: "The Salafist, the Muslim Brotherhood, and AQI [Al Qaeda in Iraq] are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria"The West, the Gulf Countries, and Turkey support the opposition."
Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan said: "The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the [Olympic] games are controlled by us, and they will not move in the Syrian territory's direction without coordinating with us."
The U.S. State Department said, "Riyadh has taken only limited action to disrupt fundraising for the UN 1267-listed Taliban and LeT-groups that are also aligned with al-Qa'ida and focused on undermining stability in Afghanistan and Pakistan"Al-Qa'ida and other groups continue to exploit Kuwait both as a source of funds and as a key transit point"UAE's role as a growing global financial center, coupled with weak regulatory oversight, makes it vulnerable to abuse by terrorist financiers and facilitation networks"[Qatar has] been hesitant to act against known terrorists out of concern for appearing to be aligned with the U.S. and provoking reprisals."
No concrete steps are taken against these state supporters of terrorism. Far from it, they are intimate partners with the United States and form a coalition of the willing to use proxy terrorists to destroy Syria. ISIS has been a main component of this effort for years. It was not until they attacked targets in Europe (Paris), that Western leaders finally decided that they needed to appear to do things differently.
What this coalition does and what it clearly does not do are the telltale signs for understanding these current events. These will require more scrutiny.
The US has manufactured terrorist armies before, notably in Afghanistan, beginning in 1979. And when their Mujahadeen brigades defeated the Soviets, in the late 1980s, many champagne bottles were popped over at the Langley CIA headquarters. Such a wonderful victory for them, Zbigniew Brzezinski was quite proud of his handiwork. Coincidentally, Brzezinski emerged recently to shriek at the Russians, "to convey to Moscow the demand that it cease and desist from military actions that directly affect American assets." Those "assets" have been the subject of much obfuscation and deceit over these past four years, despite seas of bloodshed. In Syria today, just who is an "American asset," and who is not?
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