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Obama Plans To Fight ISIS By... Giving More Weapons To ISIS?
It appears that, in a rush to get his strategy out the door, President Obama overlooked his key "do nothing stupid" foreign policy plan.
- OBAMA SAID TO SEEK CONGRESS AUTHORITY TO ARM SYRIAN REBELS
So - to be clear - the strategy to defeat ISIS is to arm more of the same "rebels" that ultimately split off and became, well, ISIS?
Perhaps it's better if Obama sticks to his original "no strategy" plan after all... if only for the people, not so much the military-industrial complex of course.
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Remember Those ‘Moderate’ Syrian Rebels That The U.S. Armed? ISIS Got Some Of Those Weapons Too
As the Syrian Civil War has waged on over the past few years, the United States, along with Arab states such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar, decided to arm the Syrian rebels under the “Free Syrian Army” umbrella.
The shipments of former Yugoslavian Army weapons held by the Croatians, along with newly manufactured Croatian weapons, began in November 2012, according to The Telegraph UK. The weapons were flown out of Croatia on chartered flights to Jordan and then smuggled into Syria.
Fast forward to the rise of ISIS and their blitzkreig campaign across northern Iraq. An investigation by the arms control organization Conflict Armament Research has found that various U.S. supplied weapons have wound up in the hands of ISIS.
AFP reports:
The study by the London-based small-arms research organisation Conflict Armament Research documented weapons seized by Kurdish forces from militants in Iraq and Syria over a 10-day period in July.
The report said the jihadists disposed of “significant quantities” of US-made small arms including M16 assault rifles and included photos showing the markings “Property of US Govt”.
It also found that anti-tank rockets used by IS in Syria were “identical to M79 rockets transferred by Saudi Arabia to forces operating under the Free Syrian Army umbrella in 2013?.
The U.S.-made small arm in question is the M16A4 assault rifle. It is the main service rifle of the U.S. Marine Corps and sees limited use in the U.S. Army. More importantly, thousands of them were supplied to the Iraqi Army. The source of ISIS’s M16s, along with other U.S. made weapons, is likely captured Iraqi Army stocks.
As for the M79s, they were part of the arms shipments from Croatia that were meant for the Free Syrian Army. The weapons were either captured, or acquired by former FSA fighters as they joined ISIS.
The lesson to be learned here is that foreign policy decisions often have unintended consequences. As the U.S. contemplates what future action it will take to combat ISIS, it needs to be sure to learn those lessons of the past.
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If you love your overlords, go on hating Muslims.
Every thought in your head has to be re-examined now and again to see if it is doing you any good. Otherwise, it is doing someone else good.
I can't see what it would profit me if every single person in the Western world would begin hating Muslims. But it is easy to see what it does for our rulers, which is why so many of you do it.
Turn off your TVs, they are the source of most of the propaganda, the ideas that do them good but not you.
This is straight from War Games (the movie). If you recall, in the game of war (much like tic-tac-toe) the only winning move is not to play.
We should send diplomats to negotiate partitioning Iraq into three parts and establish a realistic Syrian border (something we should have done years ago). That will create havoc but at least there's hope that all sides can help fight for their own countries. Let countries like Iran, Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria arm whichever sides they choose, but exert political pressure to help steer this toward ultimate peace. Eventually ISIS will be the odd man out as the more rational people realize that having their own country is better than global havoc and delusions of domination. Remotely bombing this region only makes ISIS barbarity seem more legitimate.
Meanwhile we should send troops back home and have them guard our borders and stay on guard to help with existing NATO obligations and/or impending Ebola doom.
But somehow I don't think we want a peaceful solution as it's much easier to make money building bombs and gather political support and simultaneously subjugation under conditions of war.
Rarely if ever have the Neoconservatives crafted a better tool.
It:
gives Israel cover to do what it wants.
Allows the house of Saudi to crack down.
Gets cheap kurdish oil on the market.
Pokes Iran
Pokes Turkey with an independent kurdish an.
Blocks Russian pipe lines
Probably does a few other things as well.
Boobies...
Bullish for burkas
ISIS is invention of perpetual motion war. The more ISIS grows in response, the more extreme the code: eradicate, destroy, eliminate, wipe-out forever. The illusion of power echoes the losers of history in the ears of the listeners.
Saudis needed to be reminded Petrodollar deal was ...you use dollar for oil and we protect you.
Obama's strategy: ISIS will be so blown away by Obama's charity, they will drop to their knees and praise Jesus.
Okay lets be serious: ISIS is a creation of the Muslim Brotherhood. Obama loves the MB. He is arming IsIS because he is on their side.
Hey, it is good for the defense industry, improves the GDP. What's the problem?
What i would like to know is where did they get their T-shirts and flags made? Did the US supply those as well or is their an ISIS creative department?
ISSIS, ISIL, Al-queda all cartoon characters of the CIA`s creation. Wake me up when they get to Washington and they raise their flag over the White House.
That picture of Sterling Archer is EXACTLY what I see whenever I read the ISIS thing in a headline.
They have to build up the Syrian army or there will be no one to fight the war on terror with next year. Quid pro quo.
Get a compass citizen. You are going to have to know where Mecca is for your raising-the-bum-to-the-heavens act.
(Satan has a wicked sense of humour)
Once Isis has Saudi oil they have you by the gonads.
Unless you get off your lazy arses and do a little research.
No whiney "It is Too Hard".
Okay! Let's send Obama, CONgress and the Supremes to fight ISIS. I can get behind an idea like that!
Send the arms to the Kurds.
Arming the Syrian opposition (ISIS lite) that wants an Islamic State just like ISIS is a strategy that will create more problems in the future. We have seen this movie before in Afghanistan and Libya. Arm no one in Syria. Period.