Daniel McAdams
The big
news out of Syria over the past couple of days has been that Syrian government
forces with the help of the Russian military have taken back control of Palmyra
from ISIS.
The fall of Palmyra and subsequent destruction of
the spectacular Roman ruins there by ISIS horrified the civilized world.
The US
government had claimed from the beginning that the Russians were not targeting
ISIS at all, but only the “moderate” rebels supported by Washington.
That lie
now stands bare in newly-liberated Palmyra and onward, as Syrian government
troops aided by the Russians speed east toward the “capital” of the Islamic
State, Raqqa.
Meanwhile, the five-year US
“regime change” effort in Syria chugs along in a very different way. We learned
in a Los Angeles Times report yesterday
that the US is now at war with…itself in Syria.
Yes, that’s right.
While Syrian government troops and the Russians are dealing a deathblow to ISIS in Syria, one set of rebels supported by the Central Intelligence Agency is at war with another set of rebels supported by the Pentagon!
Apparently for the past several months CIA-backed Fursan al Haq and Pentagon-backed Syrian Democratic Forces have intensified their war against each other.
According to the Times piece, US Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) – a staunch interventionist – finds the situation “an enormous challenge,” adding it “is part of the three-dimensional chess that is the Syrian battlefield.”
Schiff here epitomizes the total cluelessness of the Washington political class.
It is not a challenging situation nor is it three-dimensional chess to those capable of non-Washington thinking.
It is a matter of US policy being to wage war against both the Assad government and Assad’s main enemy, ISIS.
When you fight an enemy and the enemy of that enemy at the same time it is not called three-dimensional chess. It is called madness.
Yes, that’s right.
While Syrian government troops and the Russians are dealing a deathblow to ISIS in Syria, one set of rebels supported by the Central Intelligence Agency is at war with another set of rebels supported by the Pentagon!
Apparently for the past several months CIA-backed Fursan al Haq and Pentagon-backed Syrian Democratic Forces have intensified their war against each other.
According to the Times piece, US Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) – a staunch interventionist – finds the situation “an enormous challenge,” adding it “is part of the three-dimensional chess that is the Syrian battlefield.”
Schiff here epitomizes the total cluelessness of the Washington political class.
It is not a challenging situation nor is it three-dimensional chess to those capable of non-Washington thinking.
It is a matter of US policy being to wage war against both the Assad government and Assad’s main enemy, ISIS.
When you fight an enemy and the enemy of that enemy at the same time it is not called three-dimensional chess. It is called madness.
If Euripides is correct that “whom the gods would
destroy, they first make mad,” it seems we are halfway to destruction in the
US.
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