A high-profile Thursday speech at Harvard’s Kennedy School landed Vice President Joe Biden in some hot water, as he offered unusually frank comments on the rise of ISIS and other Islamist factions in Syria.
During the speech, Biden said Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates “poured hundreds of millions of dollars” into the Syrian rebellion, and started a “proxy Sunni-Shia war” in the region. He declared the nations America’s “biggest problem” in Syria.
Which didn’t sit well with those nations, not so much because they didn’t mention the US doing the exact same thing, but because the truth isn’t the sort of thing you say publicly.
Biden, needless to say, ended up having to make apology phone calls, with both Turkey and the UAE reporting Biden called to thank them for being allies and apologize for the “implication they supported militants,” even though they both clearly supported militants.
Beside USG being ordered by Saudis, Qatari and other regimes in the region whom want for Bashir Al Assad to be removed for their geopolitical, expention of sunni religious and syrian wealth, what other motive drive these regimes for regime change in Syria, absolutely non other. They are in business in dividing Iraq, they are in business demolishing the unity between Lebanon Iran, Iraq and Syria which is the main drive for Barack Hussein Obama accepting the SAUDI, UAE, Turkey politics starting with Libya and now Syria. So whatever Joe Biden is saying is an old face lie into the face of all others involved and they all know it. The only thing that has changed is that: few days ago the CIA was blamed for miscalculations, now the blame of not knowing what to do next has gone international.
Glad that somewhere underneath the tons and bs and crazy stuff he does have some inkling of the truth and/or someone in the WH is telling them the right stuff.
you could just imagine the calls into DC after that that speech.
Outrageous!! You know it’s bad when the Vice President of the U.S. has to apologize to a third world country for speaking the truth.
Yes, a disgusting apology. Pathetic. There are things the US could apologize for, like destroying Iraq. But allowing Turkey to sacrifice this town was outrageous. Turkey needs to clean up its own act.
As usual the role of the USA is totally ignored,omitted and denied while pointing dirty fingers at others.These countries would not have done anything unless the USA told them to do so.
It is another USA made mess that the USA always to blame others for.
Biden was right. Let him apologize to the "allies" if he wants, but he should repeat repeat repeat the message to his otherwise badly informed, arrogant boss.
His boss knows. Everyone knows.
> Biden said Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates “poured hundreds of millions of dollars” into the Syrian rebellion, and started a “proxy Sunni-Shia war” in the region. He declared the nations America’s “biggest problem” in Syria.
No mention of “israel” and its role. How unsurprising.
Biden ts to shifting the blame for the mess that the USA has created,and divert the American public attention away from real culprit that is the USA government.