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During her Senate confirmation hearing, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said this about the situation in Syria at the time: “I have no love for Assad or any dictator. I just hate al-Qaeda. I hate that our leaders cozy up to Islamist extremists, calling them ‘rebels,’ as Jake Sullivan said to Hillary Clinton, ‘al Qaeda is on our side in Syria.’ Syria is now controlled by al-Qaeda offshoot HTS, led by an Islamist jihadist who danced in the streets on 9/11, and who was responsible for the killing of many American soldiers.”
At this point, it is abundantly clear that Gabbard was right, and Sullivan was wrong. Al-Qaeda is not on our side in Syria, and the toppling of the Assad regime has not brought “democracy” or peace to the country. Instead, as Greek City Times reported Saturday, “hundreds of Christians, including Greek Orthodox, and Alawites have been killed after clashes broke out on Thursday in the Latakia and Tartous regions on Syria’s Mediterranean coast, according to a human rights monitoring group.”
This was likely an understatement of what was really happening: “The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said on Friday that more than 225 people have been killed since Thursday. However, this is believed to be a gross underreporting, with activists on the ground, such as Coast Youth Forum, believing the death toll could be as high as 1,800, mostly Alawites, but also Christians.”
And so Fox News reported, also on Saturday, that Gabbard’s “warning of a terrorist takeover in Syria looks to be coming true amid reports that al Qaeda-linked terror forces aligned with Syria’s interim new president—a former al Qaeda terrorist—are being accused of massacring Alawites as well as members of the country’s dwindling Christian community.”
An Alawite woman recounted that the jihadis said that “Alawites are pigs, and they have to execute all of them and the small children before the elderly people.” She also “confirmed reports that the Islamist forces murdered the prominent Alawite 86-year-old cleric Shaaban Mansour and his son Hussein Shaaban.” She added that in the Alawite towns of Nahr al-Bared and Deir Shamil, the jihadis were ” entering houses and killing people and stealing everything. They are covering their faces.” She said: “I feel there is no safety. There is no homeland. There is nowhere to escape to, and no one to defend us. I feel fear and horrifying feelings.”
These are the people whom Barack Obama and Old Joe Biden wanted for years to take power in Syria. Back in April 2022, journalist Aaron Maté wrote that “Obama officials now back in office under President Biden coordinated with the jihadist franchise in an effort to topple the Syrian regime – while claiming they backed only the ‘moderate opposition.’”
Maté added that “in waging a multi-billion dollar covert war in support of the insurgency against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, top Obama officials who now serve under Biden made it American policy to enable and arm terrorist groups that attracted jihadi fighters from across the globe. This regime change campaign, undertaken one decade after Al Qaeda attacked the U.S. on 9/11, helped a sworn U.S. enemy establish the Idlib safe haven that it still controls today.”
In the course of this wrongheaded campaign back in 2012, Jake Sullivan, who was then Director of Policy Planning, wrote to his boss, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, “AQ [Al Qaeda] is on our side in Syria.”
I was among the few who were calling attention to this astoundingly foolish policy at the time. On Sept. 17, 2013, I wrote at JihadWatch.org: “The U.S. is now officially on the side of al-Qaeda.” This was because of Barack Obama’s plan to arm and train “vetted” members of the Free Syrian Army. In September 2014, said the New York Times, “Mr. Obama said he envisioned the Free Syrian Army’s providing the ground presence needed to confront ISIS in Syria.” Obama also said: “We have a Free Syrian Army and a moderate opposition that we have steadily been working with that we have vetted.”
But the Free Syrian Army was not vetted, not moderate, and never actually in a position to confront ISIS. Nor did it ever do so. There were numerous reasons why Obama’s plan was unwise from the start. In July 2013, Free Syrian Army fighters entered the Christian village of Oum Sharshouh and began burning down houses and terrorizing the population, forcing 250 Christian families to flee the area. Nor was that an isolated incident. Worthy News reported that just two days after the attack on Oum Sharshouh, Free Syrian Army rebels “targeted the residents of al-Duwayr/Douar, a Christian village close to the city of Homs and near Syria’s border with Lebanon … Around 350 armed militants forcefully entered the homes of Christian families who were all rounded-up in the main square of the village and then summarily executed.”
The New York Times reported in August 2014 that, according to Abu Osama, a member of a Nusra Front brigade that participated in the attack, the Arsal assault was “a combined operation involving fighters from the Free Syrian Army, the Nusra Front and ISIS.” And PJ Media reported the following month that “multiple media reports indicate that the U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) is operating openly with ISIS and other designated terrorist groups.”
Now the jihadis are in power in Syria, and they’re behaving in exactly the same way. Will this finally mean the definitive end of the Obama foreign policy strategy of aiding the enemies of our nation? We can only hope.
Do not forget another supporter of this “moderate opposition” was the late Senator John McCain who was on a PR tour in Syria for Free Syrian Army back in 2013.
He tried to tell the American people that we needed to provide more deadly arms especially anti-tank weapons, airstrikes at Assad’s forces, and provide a no-fly zone for the jihadi rebels.
Senator McCain went even so far to re-define the muslim war cry of “Allahu akbar” as the muslim version of “hurrah” that American yell when they are victorious. This came into light when videos surfaced showing the fighters of the Free Syrian Army shouting, “Allahu akbar!” after a victory in a firefight with Assad’s troops. Many were shooting in the air and holding copies of the Koran while chanting “Allahu akbar.”
Thank God no one believe Senator McCain to give the Free Syrian Army what they were requesting.
John McCain’s real story reads like a narcissist in search of a legacy. I saw him speak at Lehigh University before the election and I knew he was sabotaging his own election for Obama. When I went to a Tea Party rally a lady told me I was nuts when I said McCain is our enemy. Then the attacks came from the IRS..
McLame was controlled opposition and a designated loser like mittens. Both threw their elections for obama, and both showed their true colors with Trump.
It was clear to me McCain wasn’t fighting to win when he appeared at a Service Day event, and described Obama’s work as a community organizer as “outstanding”.
As long as it’s muzloids killing each other, what could be better?
We toppled the awful Gaddafi and got something worse. We toppled the awful Assad and now have murdering jihadis in charge ready to bring murder to the world. This countries foreign policy has been led by fools and idiots lacking in foresight and understanding of history and reality. God help
Us all.
Hegseth is a lot meaner than he looks imho .
Dems wouldn’t say boo to Quaddaffy when he had a WMD program and ran terrorist training camps. Same with boy assad, and he was supplying Al Qaeda killing US soldiers in Iraq. Dems consistently support whoever represents the greatest threat to the USA..
Not fools and idiots. Stealth insurgents out to destabilise our own nation.
When you base policies on delusional thinking, bad results are sure to follow.
It’s not delusional if nihilism is what you want and that’s precisely what Obama was and is a nihilist.
Bareback Hasbeen Osama is an atheist? That makes sense. Except for his husband, Big Mike, he’s a sensualist and hedonist who lives in the now.
Like the world hasn’t figured that out. Are you ever in the here and now?
Well said.
Jug-eared Barry is, of course, also a malignant narcissist. (His aura was said to have projected forth from his virtue, and stop the rising oceans.)
Seriously: What kind of prick says crap like “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for!”
And Brokeback’s handlers plagiarized that retarded and self fellating phrase from a thankfully long forgotten, doggerel spouting, fake poet and fake black South African woman, June Jordan, who didn’t like apartheid back when whites were in charge. She’s all for it now that blacks are in charge, of course.
Half white and half Malay Indonesian , Brokeback Hasbeen Osama, has always been possessed by a deranged anti-white hatred.
Trace it back to the Frankfurt school, and to Marx before that. Everything that exists needs to be destroyed.
I knew Tulsi Gabbard was the real deal when she took down Kamala and her overt racism on the debate stage. Tulsi had to endure the harassment of Federal Marshall’s for daring to question the deep state miscreants. She absolutely nailed it here. When Hillary, McCain and Obama are for something it will always lead to death and destruction. The Free Syrian Army is one of the many of their murderous follies.
I’m glad to see Baby Chin Assad and his rotten clan flee or die, as I know people that suffered from him. Also helped rehouse some Christian refugees from back before 2011 when he did not need to pretend so aggressively to be friends of Christians. Still better on that regard than current leadership though. I also feel this might be the lesser evil given how allied the apocalyptics in Iran are, and how not even Erdogan or Daesh have claimed to want to cause nuclear apocalypse.
But I was under no illusions what replaced Assad would be much more humane or good, that ship sailed by 2013 if it ever actually did. They obviously are not and never really were.. now the question is how long until they become enough of a threat to us we need to deal with them. Another day in Dar-al-Islam. House of Peace or House of Pieces?
The Western world is truly without understanding of Middle Eastern history, their still-evident tribalistic attitudes and traditions including the wreckage that Islam has wrought by an illiterate, violent, madman pedophile who hated anyone who would not agree to accept
him as a prophet and he canonized bloodshed in all forms as a preferred means of obtaining agreement or death.
Psychopathy has been honed into a full-blown tradition of inculcating hatred in their youngest of children eclipsing any development of a conscience.
That nations find excuses for this malevolence is precisely how these countries and their misanthropic, third world cultures have conned the world while fashioning themselves as victims when they are strategic perpetrators.
To think that Syria would emerge from Assad’s dictatorship to suddenly morph into a self-determining nation is a stretch–even if you’re using mind-bending drugs; but then again western cultures seem to have assimilated the mind-blown idiocy of the drug culture with cutting edge pharmacology and reality is like a distant planet at which they gaze but are unable to understand.
Truth is often very simple and Tulsi Gabbard is absolutely correct!
Thos reminds me of Japan’s Imperial era.. starting with an emperor who claimed to be a god. Starting late 1890’s and into the first half of the 1900’s. A perverse ideology centralised into a state religion with its priests, rules, policies, cultish leadership. then the push to export it into the whole tworld. They persisted in their goal of dominating the restofthe planet, and were only dissuaded when a new device of unprecedented and astonishing power was detonated over two of their major cities. Against that power they had no hope of prevailing. It took a systematic undoing of their government, religion, culture. to turn them from their chosen path. Izz Lam needs a similar response, the quicker the sooner.
Jake Sullivan. Who elected that guy, D-Bags? STFU about Elon Musk. America loves him and he’s here to stay. And he isn’t a domestic enemy of America like Sullivan, Clinton and Obama. No, he exposes enemies in our government.
I am surprised Robert Spencer is quoting Aaron Mate. He is part of the lunatic left and refers to Israel as the modern day Nazis. His podcast is called Useful Idiots for good reason.
By quoting leftists, leftists can’t whine about your source. In that way, leftist publications like NYSlimes and WaPo make themselves useful.
That, and wrappinng up dead fish and lining birdcages. Maybe starting up the woodstove on occasion.
In a pinch you can use them for toilet paper. Hopefully I didn’t get an article on my butt. The print would be preferable to the dookie but not by much. 😛
After all these years since 9/11 and all those years in Afghanistan we still haven’t learned anything about Islam. There still is some hope with a person like Tusi Gabbard in a position where she might be able to correct this. BTW, did you see the story about Hamas agitators vandalizing Trump’s golf course in Scotland of all places. Islam is truly on the march worldwide.
Good post, but with an important caveat . . .
We have learned. It’s tepid politicians say bullshit like “islam is the religion of peace!” that refuse to learn.
Although, one could argue they actually did learn since they never import islamists into their neighborhoods – only ours.
It’s not just tepid politicians. Sometimes it’s the idiots appointed by well meaning politicians. Just consider Adam Boeler, friend of Donald Trump, appointed to negotiate over the hostages held by Hamas. Boehler is proving an absolute disaster. He should be pulled immediately before he does yet more damage.
Also can the idiot that failed to vet that fake, activist priestess.
(That woke hypocrite preached leftism to Trump (no scripture), and, of course, saw no need to mention her grifting funds from USAID.)
The “rebel” victory also creates a new potential threat to Israel, which Turkey and Russia will soon take advantage of this turn of events.
Keep an eye on Damascus, when it falls, the whole Middle East will explode into chaos.
Wake Up World and Smell the Coffee. izzylam is satan’s religion – They must kill and do horrible things to humans before they kill them – it’s in their DNA
USA saves the people of Syria they will hate us and create their own terrorist beds!
The only people izzylam hates worse than Israel and Jews is people!
If they wiped out every last non myzzlym not in their sect they would wipe themselves out.
It’s in their DNA – See: Genesis 16:12
KJV
And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
KJ21 And he will be a wild man. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.”
ASV
And he shall be as a wild ass among men; his hand shall be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell over against all his brethren.
AMP
“He (Ishmael) will be a wild donkey of a man; His hand will be against every man [continually fighting] And every man’s hand against him; And he will dwell in defiance of all his brothers.”
He’s such a nice looking 😍 young man… who wudda thunk?
“willfully ignorant”? Please. The DemoCraps were fully complicit, funders, facilitators, and cheer leaders. And they still are. It all began with Butt-Krak Obama’s “arab spring”.
France24 news is reporting 1500 dead in the fighting in Syria in just the last few days, and over ONE THOUSAND of the dead are unarmed civilians, mostly Alawite and Christian. At any time in modern history before The Idiot ascended the DC throne in 2021, this would have been considered a War Crime. Now, however, we must needs bow respectively before these psychopathic savages and no doubt eventually shower them with billion$ to “rebuild” and raise their corrupt, evil nation back up, as we did with the prehistoric Taliban in Afghanistan, and will no doubt do for Hamas’s Gaza, because our weakness keeps allowing terror cartels to occupy entire nations. And like in Afghanistan, the fall of Syria to al Qaeda/al Nusra/HTS is yet another delayed “victory” for Biden, Obama & co., bringing a new Terror State to the borders of both Israel and Europe.