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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; Syrian Civil War</title>
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		<title>&#8220;Stop Chasing Half-Naked Women,&#8221; Creepy Child Preacher Tells Terrorists, &#8220;Think of the 72 Virgins.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2014 16:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["What's the point of chasing the women of this world? Forget about those women."]]></description>
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<p>Like<a href="http://www.memri.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4633.htm"> a lot of Memri video</a>s this is a snapshot of a completely insane society at the ground level whose values are so far apart from our own that they&#8217;re nearly incomprehensible.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.memri.org/clip_transcript/en/4633.htm">We have a child telling adult men</a> to stop chasing women in this world and to kill themselves so they can have a paradise full of virgins.</p>
<p>The<a href="http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/WATCH-Syrian-child-preacher-says-stop-chasing-half-naked-women-look-forward-to-your-72-virgins-382859"> sheer level of creepiness of the </a>whole thing is almost enough to run a horror movie franchise on because behind this child is a society and a religion in which urging men to go on homicidal frenzies in the hopes of a paradise full of virgins is a spiritual act.</p>
<blockquote><p>The boy, according to MEMRI, named Abu Ja&#8217;far, is a representative of Preachers for Jihad. The group was set up by a Saudi preacher and former fighter in Syria who has said in the past how he has plans to open a military training camp for boys over the age of 14.</p></blockquote>
<p>Gotta start them young.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Abu Ja&#8217;far&#8221;: Make haste and purchase your place in Paradise, my dear brother. Go to the battlefields of Jihad and kill the enemies. Kill Basher Al-Assad and the enemies of Allah and of our religion. Destroy them, and if you die, you will become a martyr.</p>
<p>[…]</p>
<p>The martyr will be married off to 72 wives from among the black-eyed virgins. Indeed, he will be married off to 72 black-eyed virgins. Indeed, how beautiful is martyrdom, brother.</p>
<p>[…]</p>
<p>See how men today chase half-naked women, and forget all about the black-eyed virgins, any of whom can light everything between Heaven and Earth with a look or a smile. So what&#8217;s the point of chasing the women of this world? Forget about those women. Go for the black-eyed virgins. How can you be chasing half-naked women, and forget about those who are much prettier? Dear brother, if you want a beautiful woman, make haste towards, the black-eyed virgins.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Obama Just Handed Over a Bunch of Anti-Tank Missiles to ISIS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2014 16:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pouring weapons and money into Syria just means arming and funding ISIS.]]></description>
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<p>Who <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/11203825/Syrian-rebels-armed-and-trained-by-US-surrender-to-al-Qaeda.html">could have predicted this would happen</a>? Oh everyone. I&#8217;m not even<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/if-we-want-to-beat-al-qaeda-we-have-to-stop-arming-it/"> going to bother with an</a><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/obama-will-fight-isis-by-arming-isis/"> &#8220;I Told You So&#8221;.</a> Everyone outside the D.C. bubble was predicting this.</p>
<blockquote><p>Two of the main rebel groups receiving weapons from the United States to fight both the regime and jihadist groups in Syria have surrendered to al-Qaeda.</p>
<p>The US and its allies were relying on Harakat Hazm and the Syrian Revolutionary Front to become part of a ground force that would attack the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil).</p>
<p>For the last six months the Hazm movement, and the SRF through them, had been receiving heavy weapons from the US-led coalition, including GRAD rockets and TOW anti-tank missiles.</p>
<p>But on Saturday night Harakat Hazm surrendered military bases and weapons supplies to Jabhat al-Nusra, when the al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria stormed villages they controlled in northern Idlib province</p>
<p>In Idlib, Harakat Hazm gave up their positions to Jabhat al-Nusra &#8220;without firing a shot&#8221;, according to some reports, and some of the men even defected to the jihadists.</p>
<p>In Aleppo, where Harakat Hazm also has a presence, the group has survived, but only by signing a ceasefire agreement with Jabhat al-Nusra, and giving up some of their checkpoints to the group.</p></blockquote>
<p>There are no &#8220;moderate&#8221; rebels. There are only Jihadists pretending to be what we want them to be to get weapons, money and air support from us. Once they get it, they will pass it on up the ladder.</p>
<p>As I pointed out back in June, this is how it works.</p>
<blockquote><p>Four out of five of the FSA’s front commanders had demanded to work with Al Qaeda last year. Parts of the FSA joined the Islamic Front and seized the FSA’s weapons warehouses taking anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons. The FSA fighters fled. Earlier ISIS had seized USAID items intended for the FSA.</p>
<p>After these embarrassments Obama was forced to temporarily suspend aid to the Free Syrian Army.</p></blockquote>
<p>Pouring weapons and money into Syria just means arming and funding ISIS.</p>
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		<title>Did Obama Make a Deal w/Assad to Avoid Bombing ISIS Oil Fields?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2014 11:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States should not be making deals that keep money flowing to terrorists.]]></description>
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<p>The speculation comes from<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/18/there-s-only-one-way-to-beat-isis-work-with-assad-and-iran.html"> another idiotic article </a>by Leslie Gelb urging us to ally with Iran to beat ISIS. (Gelb, like McCain, doesn&#8217;t seem to grasp that allying with one side in a holy war between terrorist groups is a terrible idea that culminates in genocide.)</p>
<p>But aside from his usual stupidity, Gelb is also the President Emeritus of the CFR which makes this speculation something interesting.</p>
<blockquote><p>This foreign policy sleight of hand was revealed last month when Secretary of State John Kerry let slip America’s intention to “de-conflict” with Assad. One apparent result of these subtle moves is that Assad seems to be turning off his air-defense system when U.S. aircraft attack his territory. For its part, the U.S. hasn’t hit major oil fields under ISIS control. Presumably this is because Assad wants them working when he takes over again.</p></blockquote>
<p>Assad keeps his air-defense systems out of our way for obvious reasons. He probably even keeps them that way when Israeli jets come calling and no one could accuse him of having a secret alliance with Jerusalem.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the latter bit of speculation that is more interesting.</p>
<p>The usual assumption was that Obama didn&#8217;t want to bomb the oil fields for environmental reasons. That would be the kind of stupidity you would expect from him. But Gelb is suggesting that Obama has a deal with Assad to let money keep flowing to ISIS in the hopes of ultimately stabilizing the regime. That doesn&#8217;t seem all that likely since all signs point to the US throwing in all the way with the Sunni Jihadists of the FSA. And we&#8217;re not talking about an administration that can walk and chew gum at the same time on an international diplomatic level.</p>
<p>But if such a deal does exist, it would be extremely troubling.</p>
<p>The United States should not be making deals with Assad. Particularly not deals that keep money flowing to terrorists.</p>
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		<title>Are Obama&#8217;s Air Strike Approvals Crippling US Fight Against ISIS?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2014 22:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Obama, with zero experience — is going to be in charge of the air campaign?" ]]></description>
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<p>Based on current reports, the US air strikes may have prevented ISIS from overrunning Kobani though that is still to be decided.</p>
<p>To his credit, Obama exe<a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/01/politics/wh-isis-civilians/">mpted the strikes from the collateral damage regs </a>that caused the Taliban to win in Afghanistan, because it was presumably explained to him that there was no point in even bothering otherwise.</p>
<p>That frees up the military to fight to win, instead of fighting to win hearts and minds.</p>
<p>Bringing A-10s and Apaches into the game is riskier and amounts to more direct combat that will have a high risk of costing American lives, but at least does show commitment.</p>
<p>But wars are often lost at the decision making level. And<a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2014/10/07/save-border-town-from-isis-don-let-turkey-veto-help/fhd40YN5v4Lepk8M8II2kK/story.html"> the question is who is running the war</a>. Is it the military or the usual White House mix of staffers?</p>
<blockquote><p>Kurds had hoped that US airstrikes in Syria would save them. But as of late Tuesday, airstrikes appeared to be too little too late. Some suspect that’s partly because every target must be vetted by lawyers in Washington, a process meant to assure that strikes are legally justified but is nevertheless cumbersome in practice.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s from a Boston Globe editorial, not exactly a right wing paper. So how cumbersome is the approval process?</p>
<p>The Wall Street Journal ran a story claiming that <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/obama-u-s-military-commanders-discuss-fight-against-islamic-state-1410969352">Obama would seek approval of every air strike</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The U.S. military campaign against Islamist militants in Syria is being designed to allow President Barack Obama to exert a high degree of personal control, going so far as to require that the military obtain presidential signoff for strikes in Syrian territory, officials said.</p>
<p>The requirements for strikes in Syria against the extremist group Islamic State will be far more stringent than those targeting it in Iraq, at least at first. U.S. officials say it is an attempt to limit the threat the U.S. could be dragged more deeply into the Syrian civil war.</p>
<p>Defense officials said that the strikes in Syria are more likely to look like a targeted counterterrorism campaign than a classic military campaign, in which a combatant commander picks targets within the parameters set by the commander in chief.</p>
<p>In Syria, officials said the administration wants to ensure that any strikes didn&#8217;t resemble the &#8220;shock-and-awe&#8221; campaign that kicked off the 2003 Iraq war and instead be kept more like the low-intensity, occasional strikes conducted in Somalia or Yemen.</p></blockquote>
<p>An<a href="http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-us-syria-20140919-story.html#page=1"> LA Times story mentioned that</a> Obama&#8217;s approval was delaying a target list being put into action. <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-will-not-micromanage-syria-strikes-hagel-says/">Hagel denied the claim that </a>Obama was looking for personal approval of every strike, but it&#8217;s still not clear how streamlined the process is.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/388483/krauthammers-take-obamas-decision-personally-approve-air-strikes-scary-stuff-nro-staff">Charles Krauthammer had commented</a>, saying that, “Lyndon Johnson, who had a lot more experience, was also the one who directed air strikes&#8230; and there was universal agreement that it was a catastrophe. And Obama, with zero experience, having now gone against his secretary of defense and generals on Iraq and on Syria — to a disastrous effect — is going to be in charge of the air campaign? That’s really scary stuff.”</p>
<p>ISIS doesn&#8217;t need to get approval from Doha or Istanbul for every attack. The military needs to have the freedom to act or we&#8217;ll be right back in the Afghanistan quagmire.</p>
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		<title>Turkey&#8217;s Islamist Tyrant Warns: Help Syrian Terrorists or I&#8217;ll Let Kurds Die</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 19:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is genocidal blackmail. ]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/171326.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-242610" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/171326-450x299.jpg" alt="171326" width="450" height="299" /></a> <a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/1411401278028_wps_68_SANLIURFA_TURKEY_SEPTEMBE.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-242611" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/1411401278028_wps_68_SANLIURFA_TURKEY_SEPTEMBE-417x350.jpg" alt="1411401278028_wps_68_SANLIURFA_TURKEY_SEPTEMBE" width="417" height="350" /></a></p>
<p>Turkey backed ISIS before the group turned on it. And now the Turkish Islamist thug in charge of the place <a href="http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/turkish-army-uses-tear-gas-stop-fleeing-kurdish-civilians-crossing-border">is keeping Kurds from fleeing ISIS massacres</a> into Turkey using heavily mobilized forces from the US&#8230; while refusing to do anything about ISIS.</p>
<p>This is genocidal blackmail.</p>
<blockquote><p>The armed forces employed tear gas for the second day in a row to push people back from the border area which has become increasingly dangerous owing to mortars fired from Syria, an AFP correspondent reported.</p>
<p>&#8220;Leave or else we will intervene,&#8221; the security forces ordered through loudspeakers on trucks.</p></blockquote>
<p>Which is<a href="http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.619640"> exactly what you expect from</a> Erdogan.</p>
<blockquote><p>Not since the Red Army halted its tanks on the east bank of the Vistula have we seen a catastrophe shaping up as emblematic as that shaping up right now at the Syrian-Turkish border town of Kobani. In the World War II tragedy, the Red Army at first broadcast the call for the Free Polish Army to begin its uprising against the Nazis. They then refused to lift a finger to help them. So the Free Poles — democrats — were wiped out. Only then did the Soviets come in to seize what was left of Poland.</p>
<p>Fast forward to right now, when the city of Kobani, once home to 45,000 people, is under siege from the Islamic State and facing the kind of slaughter that the Islamic State has made its trademark.</p>
<p>Turkish tanks have looked on from across the border as the Islamic State tightens its siege of the Kurdish defenders, and they aren’t lifting so much as a trigger finger&#8230;</p>
<p>The Turkish cynicism is just something to behold. On the one hand, according to CNN, Turkey was preventing Kurds from crossing into Turkey from Kobani. CNN described refugees pressing up against a border fence, chanting, “We want to go across.” On the other hand, Turkey was reportedly preventing Kurdish volunteers inside Turkey from crossing into Syria to help with the defense of Kobani.</p></blockquote>
<p>Now <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/world/middleeast/isis-syria-coalition-strikes.html">the Butcher of Istanbul is clarifying his blood price</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Kurdish fighters in Syria struggled to fight off Islamic State militants in Kobani on Tuesday, as Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, warned that border town was about to fall, despite new United States-led airstrikes on the militants.</p>
<p>Saying that aerial attacks alone may not be enough to stop the fighters’ advance, Mr. Erdogan called for more support for insurgents opposed to the group in Syria. In doing so, he was reiterating the key sticking point between Turkey and Washington: President Obama wants Turkey to take stronger action against the Islamic State, while Mr. Erdogan wants the American effort to focus more on ousting Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s a polite way of saying that either the US overthrows Assad for Erdogan&#8217;s Sunni Jihadists or the US will be prevented from defeating ISIS and the Kurds will be massacred.</p>
<p>Either way the Butcher of Istanbul wins.</p>
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		<title>Free Syrian Army Brigade Armed w/Missiles by Obama Objects to Strikes on Al Qaeda</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2014 17:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haq had fought alongside Al Qaeda.]]></description>
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<p>Considering that the FSA is deeply intertwined with the Al-Nusra Front <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/world/middleeast/strikes-against-isis-in-syria-draw-mixed-reactions-in-middle-east.html?_r=0">this should come as no </a>surprise.</p>
<blockquote><p>Even rebels who supported the strikes on the Islamic State criticized the targeting of the Nusra Front, which they consider a loyal partner in the battle against Mr. Assad.</p>
<p>“It is not the right time to target the Nusra Front,” said Lt. Col. Fares al-Bayyoush, whose rebel group has received support from the United States and its allies.</p>
<p>Colonel Bayyoush was also angry that the American strike had killed civilians</p></blockquote>
<p>Bayyoush heads the FSA&#8217;s Fursan al-Haq Brigade or Knights of Righteousness Brigade. Haq carries heavy Islamist connotations so it should come as no surprise <a href="http://iwpr.net/report-news/syria-sharia-courts-impose-justice-rebel-held-idlib">what the knights stand for</a>.</p>
<p>Earlier Bayyoush was quoted as saying that his Knights h<a href="http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2014/09/19/u-s-goal-is-to-make-syrian-rebels-viable/">ad fought alongside the Al-Nusra Front</a>, which was an outlet of Al Qaeda and ISIS and has since pledged allegiance to ISIS.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Lt. Col. Fares al-Bayyoush, a former aviation operative who now heads a Fursan al-Haq Brigade, concurred that his organisation had fought alongside a Nusra Front given they indispensable all a assistance they could get.</p>
<p>“Sometimes, he said, that assistance comes in forms usually a jihadi organisation can provide. He cited a insurgent takeover of a northern city of Khan Sheikhoun, observant that a rebels were incompetent to take out one supervision position until a Nusra Front sent a self-murder bomber to blow it up. In another city nearby, Nusra sent 4 bombers, including an American citizen.</p>
<p>“‘We inspire them actually,’ Mr. Bayyoush pronounced with a laugh. ‘And if they need vehicles, we yield them’.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Haq is allegedly funded by Qatar, a key sponsor of ISIS, but has received TOW missiles from the US despite the fact that it&#8217;s clearly still aligned with Al Qaeda.</p>
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		<title>A Whole Lot of Republicans and Democrats Voted Against Arming Syrian Jihadists</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2014 22:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More Democrats than Republicans voted against]]></description>
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<p>So Obama asked Congress to vote for a bill arming and training Syrian rebels, even though he had already authorized arming and training Syrian rebels long before&#8230; and was already doing it.</p>
<p>Why did Obama decide to take the bill to Congress when he invades entire countries without asking them? Because he wants to spread the responsibility for the inevitable terrorist attack carried out by terrorists we armed and trained.</p>
<p>The bad news is that the bill passed. The good news is that a lot of Republicans and Democrats voted against it.</p>
<p>114 Democrats and 159 Republicans voted for it. 85 Democrats and 71 Republicans voted against it.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s oddly telling that more Democrats than Republicans voted against a request that Obama had personally asked for and that more Republicans than Democrats voted for it.</p>
<p>But the Dems are an adaptable lot. Two years from now arming the Syrian Jihadists will just be some Republican idea and Politfact will call it half true on a good day. All true on a bad day. (See Sequester, The)</p>
<p>Still the <a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2014/roll507.xml">No votes are interesting</a>.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve got career leftists like Mike Honda and Zoe Lofgren voting against, but also more middle of the road types like Carolyn Maloney. Pelosi voted for it, but Charles Rangel voted against it. So did a number of other CBC&#8217;s, which makes me wonder why.</p>
<p>Maybe they just assumed it was a Republican idea and voted against on autopilot.</p>
<p>Tea Party Republicans like Bachmann and Gohmert voted against it. Arguably this was one of those decisive splits between establishment Republicans and rebels. Huelskamp, Nugent and Palazzo all voted against.</p>
<p>To some extent opposition came from the outliers, but not always. Some career lefties voted for it. So did Paul Ryan.</p>
<p>The defining division may be between those who are better informed over what is going on in Syria than those who aren&#8217;t.</p>
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		<title>Syrian Rebel Group Armed w/Missiles by Obama Signs Truce w/ISIS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2014 03:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Al-Qaeda is not our problem.”]]></description>
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<p>Obama announced that he wants Congress to approve military aid for the Syrian Sunni opposition. Meanwhile the opposition has a lot more in common with ISIS t<a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/09/13/yet-another-us-backed-syrian-rebel-group-makes-peace-with-isis/">han it does with us, as Patrick Poole reports</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Obama’s hopes to do anything of substance in Syria has taken another severe blow as the US-backed and armed Syrian Revolutionaries Front (SRF) has struck a peace deal with ISIS yesterday according to both Arabic and English language news reports.</p>
<p>The SRF had only a few months ago been deemed by the US foreign policy establishment as “the West’s best fighting chance against Syria’s Islamist armies.”</p>
<p>When seeking US heavy weapons, including TOW anti-tank missiles, SRF commander Jamal Maroof was full of bravado, declaring war against ISIS. In May, McClatchy reported that SRF and other “vetted moderate” rebel groups had received TOW missiles from the US and posted videos of their use.</p>
<p>But as soon as weapons were being delivered to Maroof’s SRF forces, he was giving interviews to Western media making clear that “Al-Qaeda is not our problem.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Once you get the TOW milk, you no longer need the American cow.</p>
<p>The SRF is yet another Free Syrian Army orbital coalition composed of assorted Islamic Jihadist militias. Maroof&#8217;s Syrian Martyrs Brigade is described as secular, but its name and logo quickly give the lie to that.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s backed by Saudi Arabia and it supposedly had some success against ISIS, but it&#8217;s also widely been accused of being mercenary, which means that expecting it to seriously put itself on the line is delusional.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s still basically Islamist and appears to be more opposed to the Muslim Brotherhood than to Al Qaeda because that&#8217;s who its Saudi bosses were worried about at the time. It casually switches up allegiances, like much of the Syrian opposition, making it something between a menace and worthless. Giving it TOW missiles was a clearly stupid move.</p>
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		<title>ISIS Takes Down its Last Al Qaeda Rival in Syria</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2014 01:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the air strikes, ISIS' plans are moving forward]]></description>
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<p>One of ISIS&#8217; problems in Syria is that unlike Iraq there were two other Al Qaeda groups operating on the ground. One was the Al Nusra Front which had originally been spun off from ISIS. After some fighting, Al Nusra appears to have gotten on board the ISIS express.</p>
<p>The final rival was Ahrar al Sham, the core of the Islamic Front, which appears to be a stealth Al Qaeda organization. Zawahiri&#8217;s man in Syria was Abu Khalid al Suri was a top Ahrar al Sham commander, at least until ISIS suicide bombed him.</p>
<p>Now ISIS appears to have suicide bombed<a href="http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-car-bomb-syrian-rebel-faction-20140909-story.html"> its way through the rest of the leadership</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Leaders of Ahrar al Sham, a hard-line Islamist faction, were meeting in the Ram Hamdan area of Idlib province in northern Syria when a suicide bomber detonated a car laden with explosives, killing at least 28 of its leaders, according to various reports. Among the dead was Hassan Abboud, the group&#8217;s top commander.</p>
<p>According to Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the pro-opposition watchdog group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the death toll is likely to rise. In an interview with Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Al Arabiya news channel, he said about 50 &#8220;first- and second-rank leaders&#8221; were at the Ram Hamdan meeting.</p>
<p>In January, the Islamic Front, a Saudi-backed umbrella group whose members include Ahrar al Sham, engaged in a wide-scale rout of forces loyal to Islamic State, then known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. A month later, three ISIS suicide bombers assassinated Ahrar al Sham&#8217;s cofounder, a high-level Al Qaeda operative named Abu Khaled Suri.</p></blockquote>
<p>On the one hand this is good news. On the other hand, ISIS is forcing every Salafist group under its umbrella, particularly those with Al Qaeda vets running the show. And it&#8217;s also sending a message to Obama that despite the air strikes, its plans are moving forward.</p>
<p>ISIS knows that Obama&#8217;s strategy, guided by the Saudis and Qatar, is to find moderate Jihadists to ally with. It intends to ensure that there are no alternative groups to it left standing.</p>
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		<title>Hillary Was Against Arming the Syrian Rebels Before She Was for Arming Them</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you don't like her view on an issue, wait 5 minutes. ]]></description>
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<p>Hillary Clinton is a woman of strong views on many issues. If you don&#8217;t like her view on an issue, wait 5 minutes.</p>
<p>Hillary is against Israel and for Israel. She is for taking a hard line on Iran and against it. She is for and against arming the Syrian rebels.</p>
<blockquote><p>Hillary Rodham Clinton, isn’t buying it. In an interview with me earlier this week, she used her sharpest language yet to describe the &#8220;failure&#8221; that resulted from the decision to keep the U.S. on the sidelines during the first phase of the Syrian uprising.</p>
<p>“The failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protests against Assad—there were Islamists, there were secularists, there was everything in the middle—the failure to do that left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled,” Clinton said.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is Hillary Clinton now. Here&#8217;s <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/12/flashback-hillary-clinton-compared-arming-syrian-rebels-to-supporting-al-qaida-in-2012/">Hillary Clinton back then</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>“What are we going to arm them with and against what?” she said, when pressed in a CBS interview about why the Obama administration wasn’t giving the Syrian rebels weapons to help them in their fight against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. “You are not going to bring tanks over the borders of Turkey, Lebanaon and Jordan — that’s not going to happen. So maybe at the best you can smuggle in, you know, automatic weapons.”</p>
<p>“And to whom are you delivering them?” she continued. “We know that al-Qaida [leader Ayman al] Zawahiri is supporting the opposition in Syria. Are we supporting al-Qaida in Syria? Hamas is now supporting the opposition. Are we supporting Hamas in Syria?”</p></blockquote>
<p>Hillary Clinton certainly has many views on arming the Syrian rebels. I&#8217;m glad she&#8217;s come around the importance of arming Al-Qaeda and Hamas.</p>
<p>I look forward to her other views such as&#8230;</p>
<p>1. We should only arm every third Syrian rebel</p>
<p>2. We should rename the Syrian rebels to the Montana National Guard and arm them</p>
<p>and the always popular</p>
<p>3. Who am I? What am I doing here on CBS? Am I having a dream at 3 AM in the morning?</p>
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		<title>Jordan Oddly Unenthusiastic About Hosting Obama&#8217;s Terrorist Training Camps</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2014 18:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only ones enthusiastic about the plan are Obama and the terrorists. ]]></description>
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<p>I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s wrong. Maybe it&#8217;s the fact that Jordan&#8217;s king is barely clinging to power. It might be the threats from ISIS to overrun Jordan and kill the king. But King Hussein (the other one) seems unenthusiastic <a href="http://halalporkshop.blogspot.com/2014/07/fearing-retaliation-jordan-reluctant-to.html">about King Hussein&#8217;s plan to train terrorists in his country</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p> Jordan, where the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has been covertly training Syrian rebels for more than a year, is reluctant to host an expanded rebel instruction program, U.S. officials said.</p>
<p>Jordan&#8217;s reticence, confirmed by four U.S. officials, is a potentially serious setback for President Barack Obama’s proposed $500 million initiative, announced in June, to train and arm moderate rebels fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and al Qaeda-linked groups.</p></blockquote>
<p>So currently the only ones enthusiastic about the plan are Obama and the terrorists. And the moderate terrorists could take it or leave it.</p>
<blockquote><p>It could signal a larger challenge in finding suitable nations willing to host the U.S.-led training at a time of heightened tensions across much of the Middle East.</p></blockquote>
<p>Obama could try training them in Israel. I&#8217;m sure that would work out well. Or Iraq. Or Iran. Liberals keep talking about how we need to ally with Iran.</p>
<blockquote><p>While U.S. officials have not made a formal request to the Jordanian government, the country was widely considered a top choice to host the training due its close security relationship with Washington, proximity to neighboring Syria and pool of more than 600,000 Syrian refugees.</p></blockquote>
<p>Whom the Jordanians would like to get rid of, not arm with heavy weapons.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Jordan told the U.S., &#8216;No boots on the ground&#8217;,&#8221; said one of the officials, who all requested anonymity because they were discussing sensitive U.S. military arrangements.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s okay. The terrorists will just wear sneakers. That&#8217;s how Obama did it in Libya and it worked out fine.</p>
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		<title>This British Jihadi Will Soon Return to Enrich the UK&#8217;s Cultural Diversity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2014 15:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Im gonna kill them all every singlw one of them unless they come to islam"]]></description>
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<p>Meet our friend, let&#8217;s call him Abdul. <a href="http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/218461.php">His Twitter user name is British Witness</a>. He likes stealing, bragging about killing Syrians, Iraqis and the British. (via <a href="http://mypetjawa.mu.nu">Jawa Report</a>.)</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Facebook hates jihadis they keep deleting me</p>
<p>&mdash; British Witness (@mawlaki) <a href="https://twitter.com/mawlaki/statuses/490101851099250688">July 18, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
<p><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Took a safe from fsa yesterday <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JN?src=hash">#JN</a> <a href="http://t.co/qlPRBffn8g">pic.twitter.com/qlPRBffn8g</a></p>
<p>&mdash; British Witness (@mawlaki) <a href="https://twitter.com/mawlaki/statuses/490093575741648896">July 18, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Why do we still bend our backs for them we talk about us being here in shaam we learned from british values. Flip that we learned from islam</p>
<p>&mdash; British Witness (@mawlaki) <a href="https://twitter.com/mawlaki/statuses/486033800385036289">July 7, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>If you feel that its too hard to carry our jihad in the uk or any other country in the west then at least just group together so you know</p>
<p>&mdash; British Witness (@mawlaki) <a href="https://twitter.com/mawlaki/statuses/486563467944820736">July 8, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
<p><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Im gonna kill them all every singlw one of them unless they come to islam</p>
<p>&mdash; British Witness (@mawlaki) <a href="https://twitter.com/mawlaki/statuses/489147044641394688">July 15, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
<p><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>I would love to conquere heathrow airport one day and then just search them and interigate them like they do to us.</p>
<p>&mdash; British Witness (@mawlaki) <a href="https://twitter.com/mawlaki/statuses/489150982576955393">July 15, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Im so happy in syria at least thers no gay people around.</p>
<p>&mdash; British Witness (@mawlaki) <a href="https://twitter.com/mawlaki/statuses/488286548254011392">July 13, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>I think I can declare wprld war 3 has started as of now</p>
<p>&mdash; British Witness (@mawlaki) <a href="https://twitter.com/mawlaki/statuses/488065191457095680">July 12, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>I hate the fact thers no kaafirs at all around here I miss just smackin the crap out someone that wants it</p>
<p>&mdash; British Witness (@mawlaki) <a href="https://twitter.com/mawlaki/statuses/484062975637331969">July 1, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Now it&#8217;s not hard to get a picture of this guy. He&#8217;s not very bright. His knowledge of his own religion is fairly limited. He might even be a convert. Once the reverses kick in, he&#8217;s going to run back to the UK and leave off his old Ali G imitation and instead hook up with a group of Syrian Civil War vets and one of them is going to be Barry enough to push these Four Lions into a terrorist attack.</p>
<p>The UK of a century ago would never readmit him. The UK of the present day will welcome him back and then insist that when this fellow, who uses a photo of the beheader of a British soldier as his avatar pic, kills a non-Muslim, that it had nothing to do with Islam.</p>
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		<title>UK Jihadist Who Appeared in &#8220;No Life Without Jihad&#8221; Loses Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2014 16:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ “Are you willing to sacrifice the fat job you’ve got, the big car, the family you have?"]]></description>
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<p>Jihad. You can&#8217;t live without it. And <a href="http://halalporkshop.blogspot.com/2014/07/muslim-who-appeared-in-isis-recruitment.html">you definitely can&#8217;t live with it</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>A Young British man who appeared in a chilling terror video has been shot dead in a gun battle in Iraq.</p></blockquote>
<p>Who coulda seen that one coming?</p>
<blockquote><p>Abdul Raqib Amin, 26, is believed to be the first UK jihadist to be killed in the war-torn country.</p></blockquote>
<p>The first of many.</p>
<p>A student from Aberdeen he initially travelled to Syria and was seen last month in an online recruitment video for the terrorist group.</p>
<blockquote><p>In the video, titled There Is No Life Without Jihad, Amin asked would-be fighters: “Are you willing to sacrifice the fat job you’ve got, the big car, the family you have?&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Now Amin has no fat job, car or family. And he reportedly smells really bad.</p>
<blockquote><p>He was filmed alongside two other British students – Reyaad Khan and Nasser Muthana, both 20 and from Cardiff.</p></blockquote>
<p>Let&#8217;s hope Reyaad and Nasser soon join him.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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		<title>Bulgaria Puts Up Fence to Keep Muslim Illegal Aliens Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2014 14:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fence took a week to build.]]></description>
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<p>If only America could be as exceptional as Bulgaria. Maybe we could have a fence too.</p>
<p>But the intolerantly exceptional or exceptionally intolerant Bulgarians aren&#8217;t crazy about having the Syrian Civil War in their backyard<a href="http://halalporkshop.blogspot.com/2014/07/human-rights-groups-slam-bulgarias.html"> so they&#8217;re putting up a fence</a>. With razor wire.</p>
<blockquote><p>Bulgaria is facing a backlash from human rights groups after building a 30km-long, razor-wire fence along its southern border in an effort to block immigrants coming in from Syria via Turkey.</p>
<p>The 3m-high fence, which has taken a week to build and was completed on Thursday, has already reportedly brought the number of illegal arrivals down to 300 per month compared with 2,000 people each month this time last year.</p></blockquote>
<p>So Bulgaria can put up a 30 kilometer fence in a week, but we still can&#8217;t close off the border.</p>
<blockquote><p>Bulgaria was caught unprepared by a surge of 11,600 Syrian, Turkish and Afghan refugees last year following the crisis in Syria &#8211; 10 times the annual number of asylum seekers to the country before the civil war.</p>
<p>The sudden influx caused a humanitarian crisis in Bulgaria, already the poorest member of the EU, as asylum seekers were forced to live in crowded army barracks and tents during the middle of winter with no heating, basic sanitation or food.</p></blockquote>
<p>And the refugees kept whining and complaining and wanting to go to a richer country. And Bulgarians began protesting their presence.</p>
<blockquote><p>Bill Frelick, refugee rights program director at Human Rights Watch said: &#8220;Slamming the door on refugees is not the way to deal with an increase in people seeking protection.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Neither is exporting the Syrian Civil War to Bulgaria.</p>
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		<title>Obama May Let Assad Keep his WMDs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2014 21:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you like your WMDs, you can keep your WMDs.]]></description>
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<p>Obama is a really generous guy. Not if you&#8217;re an American, but if you&#8217;re an illegal alien or a foreign dictator, he&#8217;ll give you the shirt off someone else&#8217;s back. Or let you keep your WMDs.</p>
<p>Americans were told that if they liked their doctors, they could keep their doctors. But while it wasn&#8217;t true for them, it might be true for the <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/192841-compromise-may-return-chemical-weapons-facilities-back-to-assad/">Syrian dictator and his chemical weapons</a>.</p>
<p>If you like your WMDs, you can keep your WMDs.</p>
<blockquote><p>Syria’s regime may be able to retain parts of its shuttered chemical-arms factories under “compromise” terms devised by a global watchdog agency.</p>
<p>The United States could endorse the concept in order to finalize a plan this week for dealing with the dozen contested sites, even though doing so would require making “serious” concessions to President Bashar Assad’s government, said Robert Mikulak, Washington’s envoy to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.</p>
<p>“We are not, however, prepared to go further or engage in further haggling,” Mikulak told the agency’s 41-nation governing board on Tuesday.</p></blockquote>
<p>Good news.</p>
<p>Obama is prepared to make serious concessions to Assad that will let him keep parts of his WMD production facilities&#8230; but no further.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s it Bashar, Barack has given you all the WMDs he can.</p>
<blockquote><p>“From the start, Syria has engaged in a concerted effort to retain these 12 former chemical weapons production facilities,” Mikulak said. “If Syria rejects this compromise proposal and continues its intransigence, there must be consequences.”</p></blockquote>
<p>As Kerry has said, unbelievably small consequences.#SmartPower</p>
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		<title>UK Gov Muslim in Charge of Fighting Radicalization a Big Fan of Syrian Jihad</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2014 13:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now someone has to get a job deradicalizing him]]></description>
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<p>Farooq Siddique was all about fighting radicalization. He was the South West manager for the Government’s Prevent strategy of fighting radicalization. (via <a href="http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/">Religion of Peace</a>)</p>
<p>But then it turns out, someone has to get a job deradicalizing him because he&#8217;s all radicalized and if his deradicalizer also gets radicalized, you can see the problem&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>A former senior government adviser on tackling radicalisation and extremism has defended the right of British Muslims to travel to Syria and fight.</p>
<p>As part of a Facebook conversation Siddiqui, 45, defended the right of an individual to be called a martyr if he took up arms against Assad, and questioned whether those who fought against the Syrian president should face arrest upon return to the UK.</p>
<p>Siddiqui, who ran Prevent in the south-west until 2012, pointed out that Britons were free to join the Israeli Defence Force and return to the UK without censure, while those taking up arms against what they viewed as a tyrannical dictator, Assad, faced arrest.</p></blockquote>
<p>The key difference is that the IDF&#8217;s ex-soldiers don&#8217;t tend to come back and blow up things. People are free to dislike Israel, but its soldiers aren&#8217;t going to come back and plant bombs on buses. The same can&#8217;t be said for Jihadis in a terrorist group.</p>
<blockquote><p>Referring to an individual prepared to travel and stand up for his beliefs, Siddiqui adds: &#8220;I&#8217;d rather take his word for it because he walked the walk and isn&#8217;t sat behind a keyboard like me.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The UK was entrusting him with the task of &#8220;fighting radicalization&#8221;, which was like putting the fox in charge of the henhouse.</p>
<p>How many British kids who converted to Islam did he talk into going Jihading? Will we ever find out?</p>
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		<title>Obama Announces Plan to Fight Al Qaeda, by Arming Al Qaeda</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2014 19:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That's like running guns to Mexican drug cartels to stop Mexican drug cartels from having guns...]]></description>
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<p>I can&#8217;t see how this <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-backs-us-military-training-for-syrian-rebels/2014/06/26/ead59104-fd62-11e3-932c-0a55b81f48ce_story.html">plan could possibly go wrong</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Obama administration asked Congress on Thursday to authorize $500 million in direct U.S. military training and equipment for Syrian opposition fighters</p></blockquote>
<p>Obama didn&#8217;t ask Congress for authorization to invade Libya. He told Congress that he wouldn&#8217;t ask for permission to bomb Iraq.</p>
<p>The only reason Obama asks for something is to score political points or to cover his ass. In this case it&#8217;s the latter because even Obama knows this is a terrible idea.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why he has been delaying for so long.</p>
<blockquote><p>Within the OCO request, the Syria money is part of a $5 billion fund announced by Obama last month to help build a new counterterrorism infrastructure with partner countries “from South Asia to the Sahel.”</p></blockquote>
<p>So Obama is going engage in counterterrorism&#8230; by arming and training terrorists. That&#8217;s like running guns to Mexican drug cartels to stop Mexican drug cartels from having guns&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230; another brilliant Obama plan.</p>
<blockquote><p>The request does not specify the type of military equipment that would be included. Under the existing covert program, the administration has sent limited quantities of small arms and ammunition and has allowed others to send U.S.-made antitank weapons.</p></blockquote>
<p>So we&#8217;re going to be giving them unspecified weapons that could be used against American targets.</p>
<p>A <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/06/08/how-the-taliban-got-their-hands-on-modern-us-missiles/">US chopper in Afghanistan was already shot down </a>by the Taliban using a Qatari shipment of Stinger missiles meant for Libya. That was another of Obama&#8217;s great plans.</p>
<p>Obama turned a blind eye to <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/qatar-smuggles-weapons-to-al-qaeda-obama-turns-a-blind-eye/">Qatar smuggling weapons to Jihadists in Syria. </a></p>
<blockquote><p>The $500 million training and equipping mission would be aimed at helping “vetted elements” of the Syrian armed opposition to “defend the Syrian people, stabilize areas under opposition control, facilitate the provision of essential services, counter terrorist threats, and promote conditions for a negotiated settlement.”</p></blockquote>
<p>What exactly are these &#8220;vetted elements&#8221;?</p>
<p>1. L<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/nyt-nowhere-in-rebel-controlled-syria-is-there-a-secular-fighting-force/">ast spring the New York Times wrote</a>, &#8220;Nowhere in rebel-controlled Syria is there a secular fighting force to speak of.&#8221;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>2. The only opposition we supposedly backed was the Free Syrian Army.</p>
<p>Unfortunately&#8230;</p>
<p>A. The Free Syrian Army consisted of <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/nbc-news-admits-free-syrian-army-is-a-myth/">a coalition of mostly Islamist militias under</a> Islamist commanders, some of whom carried out joint operations with Al Qaeda/Al Nusra Front, which has pledged alliance to ISIS/Al Qaeda in Iraq.</p>
<p>B. An Islamist coalition easily took on the FSA and <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/is-the-free-syrian-army-finished/">stole all the stuff we gave them while their fighters ran away</a>.</p>
<p>C. 4 out of 5 FSA front commanders <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/4-of-5-moderate-free-syrian-army-front-commanders-demand-to-work-with-al-qaeda/">demanded to work with Al Qaeda</a>.</p>
<p>D. Its <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/obama-to-rely-on-syrian-leader-who-claims-al-qaeda-arent-terrorists-to-keep-our-weapons-out-of-al-qaedas-hands/">leader initially defended Al Qaeda/Al Nusra</a> and claimed they weren&#8217;t terrorists.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>3. There is no such thing as a &#8220;vetted opposition&#8221; because the weapons we give will go down to individual groups that can align with whoever they chose and trade weapons with anyone they choose.</p>
<p>The FSA fighter we train today may be an Al Qaeda fighter tomorrow or he may have been Al Qaeda last week.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>4. ISIS got so big and dangerous because of the weapons and recruits pouring into the Syrian opposition. Trying to arm and train &#8220;moderate elements&#8221; just keeps the conflict going which makes Al Qaeda grow faster and bigger than ever.</p>
<p>You can&#8217;t beat Al Qaeda by helping Al Qaeda.</p>
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		<title>Hillary Clinton Wanted to Arm Syrian Jihadists</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2014 17:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alternate headline: Hillary Clinton even worse on Syria than Obama.]]></description>
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<p>Alternate headline: Hillary <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-new-book-clinton-disavows-iraq-vote-and-details-differences-with-obama-on-syria/2014/06/05/3e91e2d2-ecf8-11e3-93d2-edd4be1f5d9e_story.html">Clinton even worse on Syria</a> than Obama.</p>
<blockquote><p>On Syria, Clinton writes that the civil war there has been a “wicked problem” and that U.S. officials saw no simple solution. She writes that she wanted to arm and train Syrian rebels, but that Obama’s “inclination was to stay the present course and not take the significant further step of arming rebels. No one likes to lose a debate, including me. But this was the President’s call and I respected his deliberations and decisions.”</p></blockquote>
<p>I have no idea whom this position is supposed to appeal to. A lot of wonks like the idea and Obama has been turning that way, but ordinary people hate it.</p>
<p>Even most politicians hate it.</p>
<p>Considering Hillary&#8217;s disastrous record as Secretary of State, the smart thing for her to do is stay vague instead of pushing to involve the US in a war that no one wants to be involved in.</p>
<p>To put this into perspective, Hillary is boasting of championing a position that even Obama, the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s best friend in the White House, didn&#8217;t want to commit to.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure Huma Abedin is really persuasive, but has Hillary spent so much time in the bubble that she has no idea how badly it polls. Or is she assuming that she can glide through everything with a third-rate West Wing imitation and media sycophancy the way that Obama does?</p>
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		<title>Kerry Announces No More Red Lines on Syria</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2014 16:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Putin and Iran won. Obama lost.]]></description>
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<p>Smart power.<a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/kerry-not-going-pin-ourselves-down-response-if-syria-again-used-chemical-weapons_792880.html"> This is what it looks like</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Kerry was then questioned by a reporter about the possible responses if the evidence eventually proves that chemical weapons were indeed used again:</p>
<p>QUESTION: Thank you. Secretary Kerry, to follow up on your last point, if it is proven that chlorine was used as a chemical in war, which is prohibited, what will the Syrian Government face? What steps can be taken?</p>
<p>SECRETARY KERRY: &#8230;With respect to the CW and what the consequences are, it has been made clear by President Obama and others that use would result in consequences. We’re not going to pin ourselves down to a precise time, date, manner of action, but there will be consequences if it were to be proven, including, I might say, things that are way beyond our control and have nothing to do with us. But the International Criminal Court and others are free to hold him accountable. And as you know, we have a resolution that will be in front of the United Nations with respect to culpability for crimes against humanity, atrocities in the course of this conflict. So one way or the other, there will be accountability.</p></blockquote>
<p>Let&#8217;s translate that from Diplomatese into English. There will be no consequences whatsoever except for a meaningless resolution somewhere.</p>
<p>Putin and Iran won. Obama lost.</p>
<p>After having set a red line, Kerry is withdrawing the red line while still insisting that there will be consequences &#8230; including consequences &#8220;beyond our control&#8221;.</p>
<p>He doesn&#8217;t mention the use of force, which is smart since he has no intention of using it, and instead babbles about the UN and the ICC which are threats to make any dictator laugh himself to death.</p>
<p>To summarize</p>
<p>1. Obama set a red line for Syria</p>
<p>2. His bluff was called</p>
<p>3. There is now no more red line</p>
<p>This is the pathetic foreign policy of Obama Inc. This is what they&#8217;ve done to American power and credibility.</p>
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		<title>Iraq Now Directly Involved in Syrian Civil War</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Iraq has been buying up a whole lot of air power lately. There were speculations as to where they wanted to put it to use.<a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2014/04/iraqi-helicopters-strike-jihadis-in.html"> It looks like the answer is Syria</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Iraqi army helicopters hit a jihadist convoy in eastern Syria on Sunday, killing at least eight, in a show of strength just days before the country’s first general election since 2010.</p>
<p>It was the first strike inside Syria claimed by Iraq since the three-year uprising against President Bashar al-Assad erupted in March 2011.</p>
<p>“The army struck eight tanker trucks in Wadi Suwab inside Syrian territory as they were trying to enter Iraqi territory to provide the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) with fuel,” interior ministry spokesman Brigadier General Saad Maan said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Technically Maan is claiming that this was a cross border strike to deprive Al Qaeda in Iraq of fuel, but that could likely have been done inside Iraqi airspace. Iraq is creating a precedent while tightening ties with Syria.</p>
<p>ISIL&#8217;s cross-border nature makes this innately a cross-border war. The group has designs and territory in both countries. And common Shiite religion and their place in Iran&#8217;s axis is bringing Syria and Iran&#8217;s governments together.</p>
<p>Meanwhile Maliki <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/30/world/middleeast/unrest-in-iraq-narrows-odds-for-maliki-win.html">ran on a strongman platform</a>, even though his Shiite bias helped Al Qaeda make a comeback.</p>
<blockquote><p>Mr. Maliki’s prospects have brightened from six months ago, when he had few genuine accomplishments to point to. Heavy fighting against Sunni Islamist extremists in Anbar Province and other areas of the country has allowed him to campaign as a wartime leader and present himself to the Shiite majority as the leader of an existential fight that he has defined in starkly sectarian terms.</p>
<p>Iran, perhaps Mr. Maliki’s most important supporter as he consolidated power in recent years, has supported his re-election campaign with millions of dollars, according to American intelligence reports. But Iran has also funneled money to some Shiite rivals of Mr. Maliki, demonstrating that Iran’s chief aim is to maintain Shiite dominance, not necessarily Mr. Maliki’s rule.</p>
<p>In exile, in Iran and Syria, Mr. Maliki was in charge of military operations inside Iraq for the Shiite Islamic Dawa Party, a life experience that has instilled a lasting sense of paranoia that is deepened by the constant threat of assassination he lives under now.</p>
<p>He has given his son, Ahmed, broad, vaguely defined powers over security within the prime minister’s office and inside the Green Zone. And both of his sons-in-law, who work for his office, are running in the election.</p></blockquote>
<p>Meet the new Saddam. If he survives.</p>
<p>Maliki escalated a Sunni-Shiite conflict for political power. But this typical of the region where holy wars are politically rewarding for both sides.</p>
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