{"id":12910,"date":"2015-10-02T07:07:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T12:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12910"},"modified":"2015-10-02T07:07:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T12:07:10","slug":"us-complains-as-russia-bombs-its-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12910","title":{"rendered":"US Complains As Russia Bombs its Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/journal-neo.org\/2015\/10\/01\/us-complains-as-russia-bombs-its-terrorists\/\" target=\"_blank\">US Complains As Russia Bombs its Terrorists<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"entry-title\">The New York Times in its recent article, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/01\/world\/europe\/russia-airstrikes-syria.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Russians Strike Targets in Syria, but Not ISIS Areas<\/a>,\u201d attempts to frame Russia\u2019s recent actions in Syria as dishonest and dangerous. It reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1443677223359_1823\"><p><em>Russian aircraft carried out a bombing attack against Syrian opposition fighters on Wednesday, including at least one group trained by the C.I.A., eliciting angry protests from American officials and plunging the complex sectarian war there into dangerous new territory.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This of course would only make Russia\u2019s actions dishonest or dangerous if groups trained by the US CIA were in fact the \u201cmoderates\u201d the US claims they are. However, they are not, and thus Russia\u2019s actions are duly justified as is the expansion of their current policy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There Are no Moderates, and There Never Were<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1443677223359_1843\">For months now, after years of headlines confirming the US has been covertly arming militants in Syria for the purpose of overthrowing the government in Damascus, a narrative revolving around tens of thousands of these militants \u201cdefecting\u201d to Al Nusra and the so-called \u201cIslamic State\u201d (ISIS\/ISIL) has been peddled to the public by the Western media and US politicians to account for the apparent failure of America\u2019s alleged policy of creating an army of \u201cmoderates\u201d to both fight ISIS\/Al Qaeda and the Syrian government.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, from the beginning, there were never any moderates. Starting as early as 2007, years before the war in Syria began, the US as a matter of policy had long since decided to intentionally fund and support the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood \u2013 for all intents and purposes the political wing of Al Qaeda \u2013 and begin arming militants affiliated with Al Qaeda itself.<\/p>\n<p>This was revealed in Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh\u2019s 2007 New Yorker article titled, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2007\/03\/05\/the-redirection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Redirection Is the Administration\u2019s new policy benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism?<\/a>,\u201d which stated explicitly (emphasis added):<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Complains As Russia Bombs its Terrorists The New York Times in its recent article, \u201cRussians Strike Targets in Syria, but Not ISIS Areas,\u201d attempts to frame Russia\u2019s recent actions in Syria as dishonest and dangerous. It reports: Russian aircraft carried out a bombing attack against Syrian opposition fighters on Wednesday, including at least one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,3932,1239,446,447,9499,694,9500,776,827,834,9371],"class_list":["post-12910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-al-qaeda","tag-al-nusra","tag-is","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-moderate-rebels","tag-russia","tag-seymour-hers","tag-syria","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-via"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12911,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12910\/revisions\/12911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}