Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, in comments mocking Russia’s “unprofessional” military for the way it is conducting airstrikes against ISIS, predicted that Russia would face “reprisal” terror attacks on Russian soil because of their military action.
Earlier this week a group of Saudi clerics issued a joint statement urging jihad against Russia for its support for the Assad government, and increasingly the narrative around the Gulf states is that Russia is taking sides with the Shi’ites against the Sunnis in general because of their Syria policy.
A top Qatari official was also quoted warning that Russia had “created a Frankenstein in the region” by backing the Assad government, warning there are 1.5 billion Muslims, and that the new call to jihad means “everyone will go to fight.”
While it’s not unusual for wars in the Middle East to raise concerns about terror attacks at home, Carter’s attitude suggested that he was endorsing the idea as a sort of commuppance for its foreign policy, which ironically appears markedly similar to America’s own policy.
How professional Ash. I guess this guy is really as dumb as he looks.
Obviously, the US military isn't going to fight anyone who can fight back. What else can they do, but send in the terrorist bombers?
The fact of resorting to persoanl abuse indicates that this blogger fears such an eventuality and believes it likely.
Busy creating your own reality again?
He's really a dumb "ash".
No. The CIA has been financing the usual suspects from the Soviet-Afghan war onwards. If Ash "predicts" terror attacks, that's like a mafiosi "predicting" a fire in shop that doesn't pay taxes to the Don.
Never mind the unintended irony of Carter's comment, which is so heavy he might topple over with it. The question is whether his statement is a 'prediction', or a (not so) veiled gangland threat?
How unprofessional of the US General stating and secretly wish Russians soldiers and Russian Citizens die
Russia has always supported the US after 9/11 and never hoped for the same
He's not a general…he's a civilian political appointee.
Give Ash a map and tell him to find Chechnya. I think the Russians have some experience with Moslem extremists that pre-dates their Syrian involvement. One Russian aim is to kill as many Chechens as possible in Syria before they drift back to central Asia.
The hypocrisy of the USG on Russian involvement in Syria is unbelievable. A CNN guest last night was making an issue out of the Russian cruise missiles "violating Iraq's sovereignty". Wasn't that the country America destroyed under completely false pretences? The Russians just "borrowed" their airspace for an hour or so; they didn't smash the country to pieces. Same clown worried about Iran's sovereignty; the country America regularly threatens to destroy.
Unbelievable that an official of the USA government would openly threaten the Russian people with terrorist attacks. Time for Russia to get serious and close down all NGOs and boot out all western agents. Russia doesn't need the west.
Let me guess who the terrorists will be to attack Russia. Hm. Gotta wonder why the Boston Marathon Bombing had Chechen cast members during the early period when Russia was supporting Assad. After all, weren't we backing "rebels" then?
Once this old enemy of Russia resurfaces (the conflict going back to the days when Tolstoy was a young man in the Russian Imperial military and remembered it in his story "Hadji Murad" which Hemingway later borrowed for a setting in the Spanish Civil War), Americans will already know who they are, having been introduced in 2013. That way, we'll believe the Russians were attacked by Chechens. We read it in the newspapers years ago. We know they are guilty. The perfect tool to attack Russia.
Sounds like a warning of a false flag attack.
Carter reminds me of Cuffy Meigs – arrogant, incompetent, and might just lead this country into a misguided and fatal encounter with another nuclear power because America is Exceptional.
Same remark as to RickR30.
At best, our SecDef is hoping for terrorist attacks to kill innocents in yet another country.
At worst, he's saying he'll help that happen.
How would the US react if the Russian defense minister said that?
Huffy indignation is also a sign that this blogger sees terrorist attacks as likely and fears that eventuality.
Of course the US has been funding terrorist to fight Russians since the seventies!
Bin Ladin was one of the Americans better terrorists to fight the Russians sadly for America he decided that it would be better to fight them!
Just remember the head of ISIS was originally trained by the US in Georgia in 2008 to go fight in the Chechen conflict! They even trained him to fight in the Syrian Conflict
I suppose though Russia has a better policy than the US who really are not trying to stop ISIS but are more than happy to make it look as if they are! Russia has declared that ALL foreign Fighters not allied to Assad are in fact TERRORISTS and are targets regardless of who else is backing them!
Ash Carter is basically threatening Russia with state-sponsored terrorism from Uncle Sam. Even threatening terrorism is a crime, and the Russians should file an arrest warrant with Interpol for Carter.
Same remark as to Mark_Thompson.
The Buddy Hackett look-alike, is confirming Ron Paul's "blowback" reasonint for the 9-11 attack. Will Russia invade and occupy a country that will have had nothing to do with a "terrorist attack" on their soil, like we did? Maybe Mexico would be a good candidate with their oil?
Terrorist attacks on Russia seem logical. There are more than 9 imllion Muslims living under Russian colonial rule and it's obvious that if Putin succeeds in propping up Assad and thereby keeping his precious naval base, Syria will be a Russian vassal state. That that might annoy Muslims is hardly surprising. Little by little, Putin is painting himself into another corner, just as he did in Ukraine. Amusingly, all this fits very nicely with what the astrologers predicted. Maybe Nancy Reagan was on to something!
apparently "unprofessional" is us-governmentspeak for "effective."
but forget that for now. let's consider the rest of the story: reprisal attacks
for military actions, threat of jihad for support of a specific middle eastern
regime, saudi religious fundamentalists…….the narrative is strangely familiar.
Did us anti-war types miss the story abotu the al-Quds officer killed in Syria yesterday or do we just not want to know? Help, guys! I can't take another betrayal. You're what I got left.
He knows this because his Pentagon is planning such an attack using our proxies ISIS which we armed, nurtured and funded.
Ash Carter is able to accurately predict the future, you see. All one has to do is read his 1998 white paper 'Catastrophic Terrorist' where he and his co-consp……I mean co-authors Philip Zelikow (remember him? He was the director of the 9/11 Commission and essentially directed the staff and edited the report) and John Deutsch (former CIA) accurately predicted the 9/11 attacks and the aftermath as if they had a crystal ball.
In fact they most probably did, which is exactly the problem. these people are evil and vicious and there is nothing they are not capable of. If you want to understand what the warmongers are really up to you have to read the stuff they have written. they have left a long trail of breadcrumbs to be followed.
ISIS is full of Russian speakers and Russia is full of Radicals. Oh, wow, what a controversial statement.
Yeah, and if and when these terror attacks occur in Russia, Ash Carter and the other NeocoMs will be accusing Putin of firing on his own people when he takes out the terrorists.
Russia mourned with us on 9/11, and donated the Tear Drop Memorial in New Jersey in 2006, even though there's a lot of evidence the CIA trained some of the Chechen terrorists in Georgia. Now, our government wishes terrorism on them. Incredible! http://www.scenicusa.net/091111.html
LOL
The usa desperately and ineffectively attempting to utilize their only weapon left…. Media propaganda.
Checkmate, says Putin
It is easy to predict such things when you arrange and sponsor them.
BULL SHIT, coming from a zionist american, you should be ashamed of yourself , but , what can one expect from zionist america who only listen to zionist israel, we must get rid of zionism from this planet or else we all die
Dog biting man is no news.
When they can commit terrorism against their own citizens by thousands, and bring down skyscrapers which were icons of their prosperity and growth, what chance does Russia have in escaping their barbarism.
I think Russia’s 9/11 is looming.
Carter understands blow back! Now why doesn't he argue for the US to leave the Middle East so we don't have anymore blow back. He is anti-American obviously.
I agree with everyone here who thinks it’s a threat. I can almost imagine Carter in a trenchcoat and Homburg, an unlit cigar in the corner of his mouth. “It would be such a pity if terrorist attacks happened in yer country, youse. I could make sure it didn’t happen. All ya need to do is pay a small fee: Assad’s head. ”
Exactly how mindlessly stupid is Obama’s administration that it keeps people like this man and Kerry in its ranks?
To me, this sounds like diplo-speak for, "Keep interfering with our plans, and we'll send our terrorists after you again"
Terrorism, the weapon of Imperialism.