CFR Strategist Lauds the Battle Prowess of the Al Qaeda Fighters in Syria

[AuH20]

Ummm. :confused:

http://www.infowars.com/cfr-strategist-praises-al-qaeda-bombings-in-syria/


Senior Council on Foreign Relations fellow Ed Husain has hailed the presence of Al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria, praising their fighting prowess in aid of FSA rebels while also lauding the increasing number of successful bombings carried out by Al-Qaeda fighters.

In case you didn’t get the memo – Al-Qaeda – the same group the United States accuses of carrying out the most devastating terrorist attack on U.S. soil in history, is now our ally in Syria.

Terrorist attacks carried out by Al-Qaeda in Syria are inherently moral and good. Down is the new up.

Winston, we were never at war with Eurasia!

“The Syrian rebels would be immeasurably weaker today without al-Qaeda in their ranks. By and large, Free Syrian Army (FSA) battalions are tired, divided, chaotic, and ineffective. Feeling abandoned by the West, rebel forces are increasingly demoralized as they square off with the Assad regime’s superior weaponry and professional army,” writes Husain, a Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies with the CFR.

“Al-Qaeda fighters, however, may help improve morale. The influx of jihadis brings discipline, religious fervor, battle experience from Iraq, funding from Sunni sympathizers in the Gulf, and most importantly, deadly results. In short, the FSA needs al-Qaeda now,” he adds.

[jmdrake]

Are your terrorists are belong to us!

[Dr.3D]

CFR has it's own agenda.

[AuH20]

When Assad is toppled, the Syrian Christians better hightail it out of there if they haven't already. Where the hell is the Vatican on this??
They should be hammering the U.S. for their hypocrisy.

[jmdrake]

When Assad is toppled, the Syrian Christians better hightail it out of there if they haven't already. Where the hell is the Vatican on this??
They should be hammering the U.S. for their hypocrisy.

Not just the Syrian Christians. There are also a bunch of Iraqi Christians who fled to Syria once we toppled their protector Saddam Hussein.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/05/international/middleeast/05syria.

[AuH20]

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/116720.html


"The Vatican has received reports deemed credible that Sunni rebels financed by Qatar were attacking churches and ordering Christians to leave their homes.

"The reports, which stemmed from leading Catholic clerics, said the most threatened were Christians in rebel-held areas of Syria.

"'The picture for us is utter desolation,' Bishop Philip Tournyol Clos, a Greek Catholic cleric, said.

"The bishop, who holds the title of archimandrite, said a leading church in Syria, Mar Elian, has been destroyed. He said another church, Our Lady of Peace, was occupied by the rebels...

"The Vatican determined that some of the Sunni attackers were aligned with the Free Syrian Army, based in Turkey. An FSA commander, identified as Abdul Salam Harba, was said to have ordered Christians out of central Syria."

Islamic jihadists backed by Saudi Arabia and Qatar and, as we now know, supported by the US from a secret base in Turkey, have laid siege to the largest Syrian city, Aleppo, forcing the population to flee in terror. US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta preposterously claimed today that the Syrian army's attempts to liberate Aleppo from the Saudi-backed Salafi extremists was "the nail in Assad's coffin."

[ExPatPaki]

This is going to spill-over into Lebanon, and it already has a little bit. Palestinians in Lebanon, since they live in destitute refugee camps, are very susceptible to extremism and the Lebanese army has already bombed a Palestinian refugee camp due to the presence of an al-Qaeda affiliate.

This Saudi-funded extremism (along with unending US support) is spreading and has been since the early 1980s; starting with Afghanistan and instigating sectarian warfare in Pakistan. It is now spreading in the Levant. Palestinians, typically known, for their moderation and secularism, are no longer going to be known as such. Even the Afghans prior to the 1980s could be said to be progressive and forward thinking. But decades of war and the funding of extremist seminaries has changed all that, and made the Afghans more Taliban-like.

According to Robert Baer, a CIA operative in Lebanon, Hezbollah will now protect the Christians in Lebanon from the extremist Sunnis:


"Robert Baer, a former longtime C.I.A. agent in Lebanon, has been a severe critic of Hezbollah and has warned of its links to Iranian-sponsored terrorism. But now, he told me, “we’ve got Sunni Arabs preparing for cataclysmic conflict, and we will need somebody to protect the Christians in Lebanon. It used to be the French and the United States who would do it, and now it’s going to be Nasrallah and the Shiites" -The Redirection, Seymour Hersh (2007)

According to that Seymour Hersh article, since 2007, the US aided and abetted Al Qaeda affiliates against Syria.

[Acala]

Whenever I have a serious discussion of our foreign policy with a mostly rational (as opposed to totally emotional) interventionist, it always comes down to the claim that US intervention in the Middle East stabilizes the region. It generally causes me to guffaw. "Really? Could the Middle East possibly be LESS stable?"

[COpatriot]

Not just the Syrian Christians. There are also a bunch of Iraqi Christians who fled to Syria once we toppled their protector Saddam Hussein.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/05/international/middleeast/05syria.

In addition to the Christians, let's not forget the remaining Shias/Alawites who are still in the country too. If Assad falls, these people will be left undefended and very vulnerable to violence from the Sunni groups that will almost certainly take over the country. They'll likely stream into Lebanon and provide them with more Hezbollah sympathizers.