The Obama Administration has been constantly harping on Iraq to block flights from Iran to Syria, claiming those flights are filled with weapons and fighters for Syria’s ongoing civil war.
The claim has been reiterated a lot, but Iraq has searched a lot of Iranian planes and never found anything in the way of weaponry. Instead of admitting their mistake, the US is just angry at Iraq for “not doing enough.”
That was the message from State Department official Brett McGurk, who insisted that the US “continue to press the issue” with Iraq, and that they keep doing inspections but not coming up with the weapons the US was hoping to discover.
The US doesn’t have that problem with its own weapons smuggling operations into Syria, with those arms flowing in through Turkey and Jordan without any real problem, except for the tendency of al-Qaeda factions to rob the warehouses they are stored in once they arrive in Syria.
Well, I think is time for EU, Israel, Saudis and Turkish government to start pressuring USG to stop training new Islamic terrorist in Jordan and stop sending in more weapon to terrorism including their own nationals in Syria.
America's interest in Syria relates to the fact that it is on the flank of the main supply and ingress route into Iran, until there is regime change in Syria there can be no attack on Iran!
And what’s the morale of this story my fellow readers?
Too bad, stupid. Saddam would have been more than happy to block these flights, if you asked nicely.
Too bad, stupid. Saddam would have been more than happy to block these flights, if you asked nicely.
Which countries "aren't doing enough" to stop the arms to the terrorists?
The blowback from the USG interference in affairs that are not their concern is going to be epic. And the citizens of the US – and the world – are going to pay a heavy price for the USGs misguided hubris.
Too bad the Russians aren't up to calling for UN sanctions on America.