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Obama's ISIS Czar Steps Down As Mission Falls Apart
Submitted by Claire Bernish via TheAntiMedia.org,
In a startling turn of events, retired General John Allen will be stepping down as special envoy to the global coalition fighting ISIS and will be leaving government employment entirely.
President Obama’s hand-picked choice to lead the U.S. in the international effort fighting the Islamic State will call it quits just as the harsh spotlight intensifies scrutiny over questionable decisions by the administration. Bloomberg quoted four unnamed (and unverified) “administration officials” who claimed Allen “will leave government service in the coming weeks.”
“I vote for sooner rather than later,” Allen asserted to Defense One in June last year about the need for the U.S. to employ aggressive action against ISIS. Two months later, he again emphasized the U.S.’ unique position as “the only nation on the planet capable of exerting the kind of strategic leadership, influence, and strike capacity necessary to deal with IS [ISIS, ISIL]. It is also the only power capable of organizing a coalition’s reaction to this regional and international threat.”
But his plea in that op-ed for the U.S. to attack ISIS “suddenly, swiftly, [and] surgically” went unanswered by the White House — and that unheeded advisement now drives rumors about possible underlying reasons for Allen’s exit.
As the American endeavor in the region seems to be crumbling of late, the former General’s egress isn’t so surprising. Last month, division amongst administration officials about the handling of the fight against ISIS led Lt. Gen. Robert Neller to claim the effort is now “in a stalemate.” Then last week, the head of Central Command revealed $500 million spent by the Pentagon had trained just “four or five” Syrian rebel fighters — quite a difference from the estimated “5,000 anti-ISIS Syrian rebels” they predicted would be trained by this point in time. Now allegations have emerged that senior intelligence officials doctored records questioning the effectiveness of U.S. airstrikes — but not those that shone a favorable light on U.S. actions.
Allen disagreed with the Obama administration’s choice not to deploy tactical air control troops on the ground to aid accuracy in striking ISIS targets and to create a safe zone for civilians in Syria, as Turkey had demanded.
All controversy aside, officials insist the primary motivator for Allen’s exit is his wife’s health issues, as she suffers with an autoimmune disorder.
“John Allen has put his heart and soul into trying to make the president’s strategy work,” said former military intelligence official and coworker Derek Harvey. “I have sympathy for the hard task he was given because I do not believe the president’s team was fully on board and he was never empowered to bring the leadership necessary to achieve the mission.”
Allen will step down after just over a year as the ISIS czar. The administration is now scrambling to find his replacement.
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A giant clusterfuck and the general understands when to retreat......
Yup, just like Bernocchio. Maybe the General can go on a speaking tour, start a blog, and charge $200K for a dinner....... lmao.
The guy responsible for American ISIS success in Syria steps down! ISIS soon to be obliterated by the Russian and the Chinese.
You know that the ISIS master plan is going badly when the general rats abandon ship. Too bad he couldn't drown in the sea of Syrian blood that he helped to create.
I am pretty sure you can't pin ISIS creation on this one guy. On the other hand, he was pretty smart for taking this action and leaving. Pretty clear that he was going to go from 'ISIS Czar' to 'ISIS Fall Guy' pretty fast if he didn't do something.
Nice to see the administration take it in the pooper every once and a while.
Enjoy your pension you worthless pussy...
There's an overpriced McMansion in the DC area waiting for him with spectacular views of the Chesapeake Bay I'm sure, as well as a very generous pension + whatever he has put away "on the side."
Mission Accomplished - Except for those dirty Russians actually doing what we were pretending to do
Odd that the Pentagon bureaucrats did not predict that the Russians and Chinese would team up to stop the CIA/Mossad/Saudi funded and trained ISIS mercenary army.
It took them a while to get involved -- but they worked up the fortitude (they know they can do what they want now...look out "western world" many dialectic responses to follow)
grumps: the only major national security event that the cia appears to have known about beforehand is 9-11.
their last report on the ussr had it as a world class opponent of the u.s.: http://foreignpolicy.com/2011/06/20/everything-you-think-you-know-about-...
they helped the neo-conservatives do 9-11 so they wouldn't be out a job:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsoY3AIRUGA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GNww9cmZPo
http://www.luogocomune.net/site/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticl...
china and russia are doing their parts to oppose the the u.s. empire and its minions.
mind by mind. do your part.
It is important to clarify for the record that this general's job was to combat ISIS. The job of CREATING ISIS went to Clinton, Obama and the dead Ambassador Stevens, (who, by the way, succeeded in his job).
Spot On. GTFO of the Team America building, you would have had that cushy K street appointment ONLY if you had taken the fall.
He saw red ....... Look for the withdrawl of Proxy west into Iraq. Then Iran takes over the next phase.
Team America cannot and will never win anywhere in the world where the Bear and Panda both say, " NI "
but....WE are the nights who say NI!
Fall guy my Ass. Allen along with Erdogan from Turkey are and were defacto ISIS cheerleaders / co-ordinators.
http://tarpley.net/isis-czar-john-allen-ousted/
This fucker oversaw intelligence being massaged painting a false picture that they wer eon the ropes.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/09/exclusive-50-spies-say-...
He wasn't the architecht of ISIS but he was their attache in washington. 100% orwellian. I originally said when ISIS stormed into Iraq that the US would be only offering a superficial effort, and they should get on the bus or else othr countries would finally do the job for them, and Russia has officially put everyone on notice that the shit is getting shut down.
Allen, like the rest of them deserves to be tried and hanged.
He was the fake ISIS Czar. Putin will be the real ISIS Tsar.
The plan was to do nothing. This guy has had his long term rental vacation villa reserved for well over a year.
Got News?
Reggie taking over?
That's right, no need to look for any replacement... Putin will handle it from here, just get out of the way!!!
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Maybe Allen figured out Oturd's handlers are arming the opposition.
No doubt the political complications, read Obama and yes men, made it a mission impossible. Probably plenty of money, disjointed intelligence, turf conflicts with SOC, CIA and plenty of deception from the locals/sects. Bottom line: no leadership, unrealistic vision.
Not to mention a president that skips his intelligence review meetings and doesn't give a shit unless there is an immediate political benefit to his actions. Even then, he's likely to waffle, attempt to manipulate the press, and let the chips fall where they may.
That's what happens when the world plays chess and he plays scratch-off lottery tickets.
Speaking of disjointed intelligence turf and deception:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/09/exclusive-50-spies-say-...
Don't suppose this had anything to do with his resignation, do you?
“ISIS is losing,” John Allen, the retired Marine general charged with coordinating the ISIS campaign, said in July.
“I am confident that over time, we will beat, we will, indeed, degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL,” Secretary of State John Kerry said in March, using the government’s preferred acronym for the group.
“No, I don’t think we’re losing,” President Obama said in May.
http://www.citizengo.org/en/29112-wealthy-arab-countries-must-take-respo...
hole Europe will get out of controll! They send us masses of Muslims!
“John Allen has put his heart and soul into trying to make the president’s strategy work,”
Yeah, Barry's fighting ISIS just like he's fighting banksters. He's laser-focused, on the dogleg 9th fairway.
The chief of police for Germany has already admitted that NO GO zones exist and that German police have no effect in them (August 2-15). There are also substantial NO GO zones in France, Sweden and the Netherlands due to migration.
This latest fiasco will make the whole thing worse.
http://tsecnetwork.ca/2015/09/18/no-go-zones-and-the-european-migration-...
In other words some governments have ceded territory to foreign entities. In this country that would be treason. It is an unfortunate example that the people of The United States of America should take notice of as a few hundred or thousand like minded people can take sovereign possession of land without much of a fight. Oh right, that's what happened on the Bundy ranch. The Bundy's with some human help took sovereign possession of land from a foreign power.
Whodathunk Socialism would collapse under its own weight? Anyone paying into the system
Moto you should make Faux News and whatever that silly Zioprop website is NO GO zones
Now that Putin is involved, all those ISIS lies will crumble as will ISIS
ISIS “Made in USA”http://www.globalresearch.ca/isis-made-in-usa-iraq-geopolitical-arsonist...
ISIS is a Barry invention. If it cannot work there, bring it here.
Fear .gov more than Barrys fantasy. US had no business over there in the first place.
Barry hasn't the brains to invent something like ISIS. Look no further than the Neocons inhabiting the CIA, Pentagon and the USG.
AKA, the ZOG.
+1
I've woken up a couple of sheeple with that same link.
As it turns out, some people can handle the truth.
Red pills for everyone.
Re: Gen. Allen; Stay away from nailguns, bro..
Let's think, now, who has Imperial experience with a Phantom Menace?
Don't you have some cows or goats to milk?
George Lucas another demonic piece of shit. He out actors in rubber masks, helmets, wookie constumes like POTUS "wife" and others to avoid paying actors.
Looks like the dude at the local tattoo parlor.
Nice try.
SILF? Single Ignorant Lesbian Female?
Or are you per chance Welsh?
They could ask Putin to replace him, I hear he lives near the graves of some of the original Czars and he likes fighting ISIS.
Every bloody one of them should resign.
message remember your family, be yourself and hang with your parents in the trees
the U.S.’ unique position as “the only nation on the planet capable of exerting the kind of strategic leadership, influence, and strike capacity necessary to deal with IS [ISIS, ISIL]. It is also the only power capable of organizing a coalition’s reaction to this regional and international threat.”
LOL. "ISIS only does what we tell them to"
FIFY
Because he shown America made ISIS by refusing to bomb ISIS training camps.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/pentagon-not-targeting-islamic-s...
Oh well..
Pretending like you're fighting the CIA-ISIS is a bitch. On a positive note our Ebola Czar is still working. Wonder what he's up to.
$300/person lunches and racking up 'massages' on the company credit card? Just a guess...
This whole Czar thing is out of control, which is why I propose hiring a bunch of Czar Czars to oversee them. Then, when they get out of control, we hire one master overseer, who I propose we call Czar Czar Gabor.
We need a presidential Czar to tell Obama what do do....wait Blankfein & Dimon have that job as Co-Chief.
Nice try, but you'd probably just end up with Czar Czar Binks.
“the only nation on the planet capable of exerting the kind of strategic leadership, influence, and strike capacity necessary to deal with IS [ISIS, ISIL]. It is also the only power capable of organizing a coalition’s reaction to this regional and international threat.”
I think the words Putin and Russia need to be added in that sentence.
Also:
"Allen disagreed with the Obama administration’s choice not to deploy tactical air control troops on the ground to aid accuracy in striking ISIS targets and to create a safe zone for civilians in Syria, as Turkey had demanded" ...someone forgot to tell General Allen that ISIS is a US/Mossad asset and shouldn't be bombed, especially not with surgical precision.
Ground troops? Ground Troops! We don't need no stinkin ground troops!
I heard a quote today from a Syrian general that escaped to the US, trying to explain his frustration with the Obama admin's actions in Syria. Why half measures, why can't they decisively remove Assad it that was the plan, etc. Finally, the off the cuff answer came back, "well, we can't anger the Iranians" ... Couple that with the Russia / Iran coordination going on now, and that seems plausible. So we dont want to destroy ISIS, and we really don't want to remove Assad, and what's left? Just a shitshow?
Health issues my ass; somebody has to "fall on the sword" to save Emperor Goebbels ass from embarrassment and failure. Wait until Putin wipes the floor with ISIS and then Obumba will want part of the credit; what a total clusterfuck.
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If Congress doesn't resolve the debt ceiling issue will the ISIS guys still get that raise they were promised?
ISIS is funded outside US budget aside from the half bil. dumped down the rat hole. They don't need no stinkin' debt ceiling raises.
This is why the Fed. Res. can't get the velocity of money to rise. Gov. drops it down a rat hole to enter the black market cash economy in the ME. See we give them some of the QE which then dissappears while bringing in a cashless economy in the US. Freedom for the ME and straight jackets for the US.
I was being sarcastic.
ISIS is highly Toyota mobile .... and they never even cut off the gas .... with a few refinery hits .... this clown was doing exactly what BHO wanted .... nothing !
"Then last week, the head of Central Command revealed $500 million spent by the Pentagon had trained just “four or five” Syrian rebel fighters — quite a difference from the estimated “5,000 anti-ISIS Syrian rebels” they predicted would be trained by this point in time."
This is how they steal or siphon money. I would question where that kind of money trained 4-5 people. Unless, of course, we replaced their entire skeletal structure with adamantium.
No one blinks an eye anymore about 1/2 a billion fucking dollars going away?
And CEO O'Dickhead knows zippo...
According to a spokesperson for the General, he is considering an offer to "tabulate Green Shoots" for a K-street lobbying firm.
Are we in a war against ISIS?
Pentagon claims we're at war, but with whom exactly is classified. (Not making this up, not from The Onion either.)
If we would 'pay' the $500 million directly to some of the Syrian refugees, they might have stayed to actually fight. Instead we paid the $500 million to good 'ole contractors to try to find 5 fighters.
Except the "refugees" are not refugees, are 80% not-Syrian, and giving them $500M would just be funding the Islamic conquest of Europe that is the true goal of this hijra.
Who the hell would want the job of ISIS Czar? You are responsible for the destruction of a group of terrorists that you are not allowed to destroy.
Perhaps ISIS has outlived its usefullness and Russia/China is being called in to do the dirty work, in exchange for the Iran deal. Putin gets to play the hero, China "gets some", and Iran gets to play Madame Curie on the world stage. The big losers are Assad, he'll dissapear when things quiet down, and the EU already has another invading FSA on their hands.
CNN,Fox somebody will pick him up
His book will destroy Obama. I am sure it is coming soon.
caeSAR, et tu?
As should be obvious from the General's comments, he was treating "fighting" ISIS as a video game, to be blasted away with full phasers.
When he should have thought through the engagement with a "native' uprising as multi-dimensional chess, without a winner, without a loser.
ISIS Czar is as phoney as Obozo's baptism.
To crush ISIS it is going to take brutality...lots and lots of brutality. ISIS hides among women and children with no regard to their well-being so to get the job done it's going to get messy. Barry Soetoro will let Russia/Syria do the honors of the massacre and all the while cry about it. The US is going to bluster but in the end with a wink/nod to Russia will look the other way and hold its nose.
There are about 4 million Muslims in Moscow at this time. Most are Sunni. They do not hide behind women or children and fought for Russia in WWll.
Russia will not go on a genocide binge because it would cause too much trouble in Russia and Russian neighbors.
Russia can be a neutral influence between the Sunni and Shiite factions once the fanatical are shown the futility of their ways and means.
The average Russian is a genius in Muslim affairs compared to the most celebrated expert in America.
It is very complicated, but before the Iraq War, it was manageable and mostly civil.
The basis of all this religious friction goes back to 680 and a war fought in Iraq called the Battle of Karbala. Karbala is now Iraq.
There are thus deep animosities within Islam, as there have been, historically, within Christianity.
There was a time when Protestants viewed Roman Catholics as idolatrous heretics and bloody wars of religion ravaged Europe. ISIL is now fighting such a war against Shiites, Christians, Yezidis, secularists, and others it sees as unbelievers and as stooges of the west. But its primary target is the Shiites.
Putin knows this. He will act accordingly.
Interesting. I appreciate those who know history and also hypocrisy. It always goes hand in hand with regard to politics. I mean this as a complement.
Thank you!
I like your "name" Newspeaktogo .
It identifies the problem succinctly.
They say that China's also coming to his majesty's rescue. It takes a village...you know the saying. Thanks Hillary, by the way.
This guy is smart enough to understand that, under the new and current circumstances, he's going to be set up as the fall guy. He's not only getting out of this job, but getting out of government altogether. He might want to retire someplace safe outside of the country, too, like Sochi.
Edit: This is not to imply that he is some kind of Russian stooge, but to point out that one of the only places outside the reach of the Empire is Russia. (see, e.g., Snowden).
same old shit.....over and over.
Vietnam redux
No general wants to fight a phoney war...and he sure as hell doesn't want to be involved in this clusterfuck when that phoney war turns into a real shooting war with enemies that are a bit more advanced and deadly than a bunch of hajis.
Another failed U.S. Foreign Policy.Obama and his X-Cheneyites in the Neo-Con (Neo-Nazi) State Department led by a sawed off F'n fat PMS'd beatch named Victoria Nuland are all a literal disgrace to the United States.How many more bombings of countries around the globe must go on before right-wing assholes are removed from Government?No wonder the Pope visits the U.S.He's trying to stop the biggest war mongers in history from destroying numerous other nations and overthrowing their Governments.Libya,Afghanistan,Iraq now Syria and Ukraine,are they any better than Vietnam for failure?
He knew the job was dangerous when he took it.
The Inner Government from within is in command.Obama is a Chicago bum who used to work for a CIA front Company at one time in Chicago.He's a puppet,he's not able to stand up to them.He's a symbolic figurehead simply running The Corporation of The United States.He doesn't want to get shot like they did to Kennedy or blown up like they did to the NY Towers.
The Russians and Chinese will defeat ISIS in Syria. The interesting stuff starts when they chase ISIS to the Iraq border. Methinks we will hear another red line statement from der fearless leader.
You're exactly right. Despite the brave general's assertion that "the U.S. is in the unique position as “the only nation on the planet capable of exerting the kind of strategic leadership, influence, and strike capacity necessary to deal with IS [ISIS, ISIL]".
The real reason he stepped down is out of of sheer embarrassment because Russia is about to do exactly as you say. The arrogance is disgusting, especially because we're seeing it everywhere these days and it's coming from empty blowhards in Washington, the Pentagon, Wall Street, the Fed... everywhere.
So Allen wanted to go big with a full-on large-scale concerted sustained heavy PGM attack, and the White House said, "ah, we'll get back to you John", he waited, still no word, White House pretended it was all steadily getting better without attacking ISIS much at all, just a token dribble here and there, the analysts reported failure and spiral worsening, nothing happened, so protested, nothing still, Iran intervenes, nothing, Russia intervenes, White House notices that, starts to realize it has a problem much too late, dithers, fumbles, Allan gets asked to resign (was flat-out sacked). All due to the White House's total failure to give fuck about the Syrians, the vast majority of whom are backing the Syrian State against a mish-mash of White House proxy-supported and preserved homicidal maniacs invading Syria and murdering them.
I believe Obama was put in office to 1) remove the neocons in the Pentagon and 2) take back US foreign policy from the State Department and the neocons who run it. First their was State and Hillary running guns in Benghazi. When the embassy was attacked and State ask for help, the White House told the military to stand down. "They got themselves into this mess by going behind the White House's back, they can get themselves out"! This is on record in Congressional hearings. Secondly the White House had a deal in Ukraine that would include new elections. State, (Nuland), went again behind the White House's back and had the bloody overthrow. The White House has closed down all options in Ukraine and State must deal with it. Thirdly Gen. Allen made a deal with Turkey's leader on a "no fly zone" over Syria, again behind the White House's back. Obama immediately ordered the deactivation and removal of all Patriot missile systems in Turkey and ordered all other NATO countries to do the same. The White House then made a deal with the Russians which is supported by all of Europe, (except England of course), to move in troops, aircraft, S-22s and S-300s. Both Allen and State tried to pressure countries to deny Russian any air space to mobilize, again behind the White House's back. General Allen had to go. The neocon is gone. That is why the White House made the deal with Iran, to change the balance of power in the Middle East. The White House is painted at best as having a terrible foreign policy but foreign policy is controlled by State. The White House has successfully derailed all the actions by the neocons. Israel knows this and went immediately to Putin. They realize now that changes are coming to the Middle East. Obama is winning the battle behind the scenes in Washington against the neocons. Don't listen what the White House says, but watch what they do!!!
jj
So if the White House has as much cunning & guile to circumvent everything Israel and the neocons are trying to "craft" this past decade or so, what is their end game?
Suck Russia and China into the quagmire of the Middle East?
Shi'ites and Sunnis holding hands again?
Destruction of the state of Israel?
Major demographic shift of Europe?
All of the above?
Become a neutral agent in the Middle East.
Get Israel and Palestine to the Peace Table.
Force Israel and Palestine to the Peace Table.
Demand Israel and Palestine reach a peace accord at the Peace Table.
Put America First in all things regardless as to who our friends and allies are.
Use the power of the purse if necessary (by cutting aid) to show that we mean business.
Look at the world through “American Eyes” without being blind to all other visions.
I've seen this movie before, but Clinton didn't win the academy award he was looking for
You're right.
It doesn't make it wrong however!
No, it definately doesn't. But Isreal isn't too keen on the Kenyan, and finding another Palestinian leader to play the role of Arafat might be a problem
As I have said many times, “America is a non-neocon nation run by neocons.
None of them represent American Ideals.
Neocon has become largely indistinguishable from the Republican mainstream.
They were before that the liberal internationalists Trotskyists of the Democratic Party.
They are within whichever party supports their warmongering ways and turns on the printing presses to generate the money to support them.
Almost every Republican Candidate suggested more war during the debate.
True Republicans have become separated from the Republican Party Overlords.
The problem is that neither party abhors them.
I believe you are correct. What we are witnessing is a civil war inside the US government.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
At least this clown didn't wait around to do nothing like Holder.
You mean Eric "place" Holder
The first pawn falls on the way to checkmate. Get your lists out, it's Syrian Dead Pool.
My guess is he joined ZH to ask some questions and got fucking red pilled to capitulation.
Surprising how few people leave government jobs. Considering government in the USSA alone consists of perhaps 30+million people (at the fed, state, and local levels), and most of them spend their days messing up, faking success, then trying to cover-up/screw someone else for the failure, they seldom publicly complain, and almost NEVER leave.
I guess when one is aware they have no real value and all they have to do to stay employed is show up on time and ignore everyone, it's not a bad gig.
Yeah, this never happens in the corporate world. What a dope you are.
LMFAO! That's all you got?
The article wasn't about the corporate world...retard.
Does the same behavior exist in the corporate environement? Sure, but it's nowhere near as common, or as superficial, and rarely for an entire career. The depth and breadth of laziness and zero productivity is far greater in government and turnover rates of employees are lower than any private sector employer. In fact, I never saw an individual in the corporate environment that had zero value and stuck around. They would either get fired, leave on their own, or figure out something to do. Other individuals might cover for a slacker for awhile, but it wasn't endemic or cultural behavior. If someone were consistently medicre or inept, others would turn on them and run them out the door. Granted, I didn't see every employee in every coroporation in the country, but I saw LOTS, and often in poorly-run areas of the company that required attention (which is why I was there).
Not the case with government. I've seen people that do absolutely nothing. Nothing at all. Yet they stick around. They aren't fired, they aren't pressured to do something, they don't take the intitiative and try to do something productive--they just fill their cube for the time they are expected to be there, then go home. Worse yet, other employees protect the inept and stupid so frequently that it's a cultural characteristic, which they justify in every way imaginable, but it only contributes to the dysfunction. There is a simple explanation--gov is a monopoly. The only pressure to clean out dead wood is either budgetary or catastrophic failure with adverse impacts. If most employees do nothing, the latter scenario is off the table. So it's usually just budgetary pressure and politicians are adept at extorting more money.
Turnover rates among gov employees are incredibly low. Even if morale is shit, the employees won't leave except for another govt job. It's nothing at all like corporate employment.
Said retired General is probably returning to more financially rewarding 'work' in the private sector.
I heard he declared victory and went home.
“I have sympathy for the hard task he was given because I do not believe the president’s team was fully on board and he was never empowered to bring the leadership necessary to achieve the mission.”
When a competent Cammander in Chief, has a team that is not fully aboard with a MISSION, then that President needs to fire the F-ing team. Typical Obama BS.
Obama administration and defense policy reminds me of the Clinton's... sit back in the big easy chair and launch missiles and drone strikes until you piss off enough muzzies to the point they start bombing embassys and trying to sink ships (USS Cole).
I've got to think we're just moments away from a major terr'st attack.
This commentary goes back to 23 Aug 2015 but is very accurate in its analysis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQik9VKf66M
So ISIS has a Caliph and a Czar? These guys become more formidable by the day.
It didn't FAIL. It was a success. The neo-cons got what they wanted: perpetual war against a murky enemy, created by the neo-cons.