In comments yesterday at the Kennedy School, Vice President Joe Biden said the United States’ biggest problem in the Syria war has been their allies, singling out Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
Biden said those nations had “poured hundreds of millions of dollars” into trying to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad and in the process had created a “proxy Sunni-Shia war” in the region.
“The Turks, we’re great friends and I have a great relationship with Erdogan that I spent a lot of time with. The Saudis, the Emiratis, etc., what were they doing?” Biden added.
Incredibly, the vice president also claimed the US had been trying but “could not convince our colleagues to stop supplying” the various Islamist rebel factions inside Syria.
Absent in Biden’s comments is the massive amount of money the US poured into Syria backing the exact same groups, for the exact same reason. Biden sought to portray the calamitous failure of Syria over the past years as someone else’s fault, and a lesson the anti-ISIS alliance has learned.
It is always someone else's fault with this crowd, isn't it?
No, I think its a rare moment of clarity and candidness. The US was definitely involved but the instigation was squarely on the shoulders of Wahhabi Saudi Arabia, the Brand of non-islam responsible for Al-Qaeda and ISIS. Turkey came in after the shit hit the fan.
And they all say, it was USG who wanted to change the government of Syria, so it is the USG to be blamed, we the Saudis, UAE, Kuwaiti and others, in the other hand just supplied Turkey to supply and support ISIS.
Like every other deceptive USG war game, this is the blaming game when Obama running out of all of his options sending in his tail (Joe Biden) to testify for his annossens. If Barack Hussein Obama or the U.S. Democratic Party high ranking politicians whom been fooling people for years was not part of the other war party, than he simply should have said no to Hillary Clinton, John McCain and every other warmongers NO to Syria regime change. He would have started his other option by helping Iranian, Syrian government the tools fir defeating ISIS, eliminating them from face of the earth.
A tool like Biden speaking rationally is an uncanny experience, maybe he had a temporal lobe epilepsy attack or something…
lol – that's as good an explanation as any.
U.S. Syria policy is so absurd perhaps it is difficult to determine just which side Washington is on. Even for the vice president. Biden has spent the last two days calling Turkey and the UAE to clarify the U.S. position. There are so many lies being promoted, like the Korisan Group, that the Obama administration is perhaps beginning to get caught up in its own lies.
Biden is wanting to do what those running this country want our government to accomplish – recruiting some Muslim stooges to kill the uppity Muslims messing with the master plans for our oil interests to get their oil. letting the Israelis steal their land, and in general, continue our hegemony over the World.
Call Bullsheet… Biden is attempting to: 1.keep his name current, and 2. design a campaign narrative that will separate him (he thinks) from Shrillary. But, Biden's real problem is that he has never been relevant…and nothing he does now or in the future is going to change that, thankfully.
Biden haven’t the slightest clue of what he said, he is going against his own administration rhetoric that Assad was to blame……somebody get the straight jacket.
“Babylon, land of deepest shadow and deep
darkness, where even light is like darkness.”
Biden feeds us an illusion of good under cover of a touch of light, a pretense of good hiding an intent to be enriched upon our misery, the lubricant that gets things done in our greed driven and satanic Empire.
attribution, please.
Biden, nice try. You and your boss are just as guilty and should be brought up on war crimes against humanity. Will it happen? nope but hopefully history does.
This is more amazing on the second read. The Obama Administration is totally adrift and likely in panic mode as Iraq is being retaken by the Sunni IS. There were reports tonight of American piloted helicopter gunships operating west of Baghdad to stop the IS advance.