{"id":37641,"date":"2018-09-11T10:02:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T15:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37641"},"modified":"2018-09-11T10:02:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T15:02:42","slug":"why-are-we-siding-with-al-qaeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37641","title":{"rendered":"Why Are We Siding With al-Qaeda?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why Are We Siding With al-Qaeda?<\/a><\/h3>\n

Last week, I urged the Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to stop protecting al-Qaeda in Syria by demanding that the Syrian government leave Idlib under al-Qaeda control. While it may seem hard to believe that the US government is helping al-Qaeda in Syria, it\u2019s not as strange as it may seem: our interventionist foreign policy increasingly requires Washington to partner up with \u201cbad guys\u201d in pursuit of its dangerous and aggressive foreign policy goals.<\/p>\n

Does the Trump Administration actually support al-Qaeda and ISIS? Of course not. But the \u201cexperts\u201d who run Trump\u2019s foreign policy have determined that a\u00a0de facto\u00a0alliance with these two extremist groups is for the time being necessary to facilitate the more long-term goals in the Middle East. And what are those goals? Regime change for Iran.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s have a look at the areas where the US is turning a blind eye to al-Qaeda and ISIS.<\/p>\n

First, Idlib. As I mentioned last week, President Trump\u2019s own Special Envoy to fight ISIS said just last year that \u201cIdlib Province is the largest Al Qaeda safe haven since 9\/11.\u201d So why do so many US officials \u2013 including President Trump himself \u2013 keep warning the Syrian government not to re-take its own territory from al-Qaeda control? Wouldn\u2019t they be doing us a favor by ridding the area of al-Qaeda? Well, if Idlib is re-taken by Assad, it all but ends the neocon (and Saudi and Israeli) dream of \u201cregime change\u201d for Syria and a black eye to Syria\u2019s ally, Iran.<\/p>\n

Second, one of the last groups of ISIS fighters in Syria are around the Al-Tanf US military base which has operated illegally in northeastern Syria for the past two years.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n

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Why Are We Siding With al-Qaeda? Last week, I urged the Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to stop protecting al-Qaeda in Syria by demanding that the Syrian government leave Idlib under al-Qaeda control. While it may seem hard to believe that the US government is helping al-Qaeda in Syria, it\u2019s not as strange […]<\/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":[23,3218,7844,446,692,14830,776,827,865],"class_list":["post-37641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-al-qaeda","tag-bashar-al-assad","tag-donald-trump","tag-isis","tag-ron-paul","tag-ron-paul-institute-for-peace-and-prosperity","tag-syria","tag-united-states","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37641","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=37641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37642,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37641\/revisions\/37642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}