{"id":13193,"date":"2015-10-09T07:06:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T12:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13193"},"modified":"2015-10-09T07:06:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T12:06:50","slug":"the-six-most-disastrous-interventions-of-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13193","title":{"rendered":"The Six Most Disastrous Interventions of the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Six Most Disastrous Interventions of the 21st \u00a0Century<\/a><\/h3>\n

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On October 2 President Barack Obama, alluding to Russia\u2019s decision to launch air strikes in Syria, told reporters at the White House that for Russia to view the forces targeted \u201cfrom the perspective they\u2019re all terrorists [is] a recipe for disaster, and it\u2019s one that I reject.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, he was saying that Moscow is not (as it claims) really focusing on ISIL and the al-Nusra Front but on the anti-regime opposition in general, which supposedly includes \u201cmoderates.\u201d<\/p>\n

Never mind that Obama himself as well as Joseph Biden have on occasion pooh-poohed the existence of a moderate armed opposition that controls territory in Syria. Didn\u2019t Biden say last year at Harvard that \u201cthere was no moderate middle [in Syria] because the moderate middle are made up of shop-keepers, not soldiers\u201d?<\/p>\n

And hasn\u2019t it been shown that maps showing territory in the hands of the \u201cFree Syrian Army\u201d are the figments of propagandists\u2019 imagination? The FSA has no coordinated command structure and its networks overlap those of groups that Washington would not normally define as \u201cmoderate\u201d (unless it wanted to rehabilitate al-Qaeda, which having attacked the U.S. on 9\/11 and supposedly the cause of all the\u2014disastrous\u2014post-9\/11 U.S. military actions in the Middle East), has gradually become my-enemy-against-my-enemy and hence a new found friend.<\/p>\n

Seriously. Gen. David Petraeus, architect of the \u201csurge\u201d in Iraq in 2007 and former head of the CIA (until brought down in a sex\/email-misuse scandal), has actually suggested that the U.S. support al-Qaeda\u2014the al-Nusra Front\u2014in Syria to defeat the bigger foe that is ISIL. (It does seem one man\u2019s extremist is another man\u2019s \u201cmoderate,\u201d especially under confusing crisis circumstances. And that every cable news anchorperson will call \u201cmoderate\u201d whatever the State Department demands\u2014without knowing jack-shit about the facts, this not being required by that profession.)<\/p>\n

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The Six Most Disastrous Interventions of the 21st \u00a0Century On October 2 President Barack Obama, alluding to Russia\u2019s decision to launch air strikes in Syria, told reporters at the White House that for Russia to view the forces targeted \u201cfrom the perspective they\u2019re all terrorists [is] a recipe for disaster, and it\u2019s one that I […]<\/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":[23,7365,6394,9732,9733,2127,1239,445,446,447,584,694,776,827,834,2344],"class_list":["post-13193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-al-qaeda","tag-al-nusra-front","tag-david-patraeus","tag-free-syria-army","tag-fsa","tag-interventionism","tag-is","tag-isil","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-obama","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-us-state-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13193","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=13193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13194,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13193\/revisions\/13194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}