Trump
Finally Stops Arming Terrorists in Syria
By Matt
Agorist
July
21, 2017 "Information
Clearing House"
- There
is no doubt that President Donald Trump has made
incredibly tyrannical moves. His foreign policy
is a page out of the book of both of his
predecessors, Barack Obama and George W. Bush,
but even more deadly.
That being said, his administration’s decision
to halt the covert CIA program of arming
‘moderate rebels’ in Syria is a welcome move to
those who’ve been paying attention — namely,
because those ‘moderate
rebels’ are terrorists.
Trump’s decision to stop using taxpayer dollars
to funnel weapons to groups that record
themselves beheading children
should be praised by the media. Instead,
however, it is being lambasted as — wait for it
— a
pro-Russian move.
It is no secret that much of the opposition
forces in Syria are aligned with ISIS. In fact,
this move by Trump was actually
proposed in legislation
by Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard in the House and
Senator Rand Paul in the Senate.
“For years, our government has
been providing both direct and indirect support
to these armed militant groups, who are working
directly with or under the command of terrorist
groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS,
all in their effort and fight to overthrow the
Syrian government,”
Gabbard said earlier this year.
As the Free Thought Project
reported in
April, the US knew Al-Qaeda leader al-Zawahiri
called on Muslims in Turkey and the Middle East
to aid the rebels in the Free Syrian Army. From
this day forward, the lines between who Al-Qaeda
or the ‘rebels’ actually were — became heavily
blurred. But, according to the email, the state
department did not care
as they knew Al-Qaeda was on
their side.
As the
email states:
UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case
No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05789138 Date:
10/30/2015 AL-ZAWAHIRI
URGES MUSLIM SUPPORT FOR OPPOSITION (U)
Al-Qaida leader al-Zawahiri called
on Muslims in Turkey and the Middle East to
aid rebel forces in their fight against
supporters of Syrian President Asad
in an interne video recording. Al-Zawahiri
also urged the Syrian people not to rely on
the AL, Turkey, or the United States for
assistance.euters)
Once this wire went out to multiple departments
in the form of an Ops Alert, apparently there
may have been some original concern about
Al-Qaeda joining the ranks of the US-supported
rebels — who are
being used by the American Deep State
to destabilize Syria on behalf of special
interests. However, Sullivan quickly replied to
his master, Hillary Clinton, to let her know
that
Al-Qaeda “is on our side
in Syria.”
It is
not some conspiracy theory that the US has been
caught time and again putting weapons in the
hands of ISIS. It was also not some Pro-Russian
move as the WaPo tries to spin it.
President Trump has decided
to end the CIA’s covert program to arm and
train moderate Syrian rebels battling the
government of Bashar al-Assad,
a move long sought by
Russia, according to U.S. officials.
Although this move was sought by Russia, it
doesn’t make it a pro-Russian move. It makes it
a logical one. How
on earth can you claim to be fighting ISIS while
at the same time arming them?
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But,
the Washington Post knows no logic — only
propaganda — which they laid on thick in the hit
piece against the move to stop arming
terrorists. In their article, they cite their
mythical ‘anonymous’ source, who claims this is
a catastrophe.
“This is a momentous decision,” said a current
official, who spoke on the condition of
anonymity to discuss a covert program.
“Putin won in Syria.”
This
line might be considered true if Putin was
attempting to do anything other than help the
Assad regime — who invited him there — unlike
the US.
But the
fear mongering doesn’t stop there.
“We are falling into a Russian
trap,” said
Charles Lister, a senior fellow at the Middle
East Institute, who focuses on the Syrian
resistance, reports the Post.
“We are making the moderate resistance more and
more vulnerable. . . . We are really cutting
them off at the neck.”
However, as Congresswoman Gabbard noted, who
actually went to Syria to see for herself, there
are no moderate rebels.
“The
reality is… every place that I went, every
person that I spoke to, I asked this question to
them, and without hesitation, they said, there
are no moderate rebels. Who are these moderate
rebels that people keep speaking of?
Regardless of the name of these
groups, the strongest fighting force on
the ground in Syria is al Nusra, or al-Qaeda and
ISIS. That is a fact,”
Gabbard
said.
By
ridiculing the decision to stop the CIA from
putting weapons in the hands of terrorists, the
WaPo and their ilk in the mainstream media are
showing their true colors. They also look
utterly ridiculous in their attempt to inject
the fake Russian narrative into it as well.
Make no
mistake, the corporate media in the United
States has an important function in regards to
the government and that is to sell you war. When
a move is made to ostensibly combat that
narrative, they will lash out. Conversely, when
people are killed and bombs are dropped,
they will respond with praise.
While
this move is certainly a beneficial one, it is
hardly a game changer as the Pentagon will
continue its train-and-equip program in support
of the largely Kurdish rebel force that is
advancing on Islamic State strongholds in Raqqa
and along the Euphrates River valley. Perhaps
Trump knew this and this entire fiasco was
little more than a dog and pony to distract from
the tens of thousands of innocent civilians
piling up behind the man who ran on a campaign
to get out of Syria and the Middle East
altogether.
Matt Agorist is an
honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and
former intelligence operator directly tasked by
the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique
insight into the world of government corruption
and the American police state. Agorist has been
an independent journalist for over a decade and
has been featured on mainstream networks around
the world. Agorist is also the Editor at Large
at the Free Thought Project. Follow
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This article was first published by
Free Thought Project
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also -
Thierry Meyssan: Billions
of dollars’ worth of arms against Syria
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