By Jim W. Dean, Managing Editor on December 15, 2015
We were played for dopes on
the Iran nuclear scam…never pressing for proof. Were we?
“There is beauty in truth,
even if it’s painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the
lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only
strengthen our defects.” –
Jose N. Harris
by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor … with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow
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Who will pay the price for
lying to us about
who has been supporting ISIL?
The Russian Defense
Ministry won the quote of the week award with its “theater of the absurd”
description of the US State Department’s and Pentagon’s denials that they knew
anything about Turkey’s aiding and abetting ISIL via the massive oil smuggling
operations from Syria.
They were lying of course,
and admitted that Turkey was guilty for not only the oil smuggling but all the
other supplies crossing the border for ISIL. US Special Envoy Amos
Hochstein had earlier said the amount of oil being trafficked into Turkey was
insignificant. And then US coalition spokesman Colonel Steve Warren went even
further by saying, “Any thought that the Turkish government is somehow working
with ISIL is just preposterous and completely untrue.”
Every major intelligence
agency and military with
communication intercept and satellite capability has been watching this go on
for a long time now. And what cab driver in the world does not know that
nothing moves through Turkey without Turkish Intelligence knowing, and getting
a piece of the action for its bosses? If ISIL were a problem in Turkey, it
would not last over 48 hours.
How did all the “Western
ISIL smuggling deniers” pull the scam off for so long? The possibilities
are that they were stupid and incompetent; they had been ordered to lie to the
world and their own people for political reasons; or legal ones, like aiding
and abetting in a crime against humanity.
Or… maybe they are the real
Axis of Evil, something I do not say flippantly, as the pile of dead and
wounded, the tortures and executions, and over ten million refugees is no
joking matter.
David Cameron makes up a
70,000 number
for the FSA out of thin air – panderer-in-chief
When democratic governments
pander such pathological
lies in front of those they have taken an oath to protect and defend, is it
unfair to describe them as evil?
And when the evil train
leaves the station and we see more state leaders running after it, like David
Cameron with his claim that Britain had an obligation to bomb ISIL in Syria to
help protect the 70,000 in the Free Syrian Army, is that not manipulation on an
evil level?
I can’t leave out the
Qataris and Saudis, with their undying support for their Wahhabi brethren who
became the Founding Fathers of the Muslim Axis of Evil. They of course think
they are accountable to no one, including God, which I think was a bad move on
their part and one they will regret.
But none of this has
bothered their Western partners who
make money selling them huge amounts of weapons to protect themselves from the
retribution that they know they are due. Having a nuclear big brother with not
only a Navy but a huge air transportation capacity to project power is not a
luxury but a necessity when being a smaller country-sponsor of terror.
Iran and Russia were caught
with their pants down on this to a degree. Iran had been reaching out to all
the Gulf countries trying to improve relations via investment opportunities
trying to ease tensions to undermine the US State Department’s continuing to
list Iran as a state sponsor of terror. Iraq, Iran and Russia were further
compromised somewhat, via the financial ties they had via trade with and
through Turkey.
For example in Northern
Iraq the majority of its imports come in through Turkey. And during the worst
of the sanctions squeeze in Iran, Turkey was an important lifeline. Russia had
major trade relations, gas exports and strategic pipeline deals in the works
with Ankara, critical to its economy. Such geopolitical concerns cannot be
ignored by responsible state leaders.
Saudi AWACS – doing joint
illegal operations creates blackmail compromises that last.
But that all changed for
Russia when Turkey shot down the
SU-24 in what is generally agreed to have been a well-planned ambush, and one
which NATO and Saudi AWACs are widely suspected to have been involved,
thickening the morality soup even more.
Lavrov told Italian media
on December 9th that Russia had prior knowledge of ISIL smuggling going on
through Turkish territory, and had had long discussions about it with…“our
Turkish partners without making a great fuss or accusing them of anything…we
were reluctant to believe that [the Turkish leadership was involved] and tried
to address these problems through special channels. It did not work.”
Please make a note that the
US admission of knowing about the Turkish-ISIL oil smuggling came the following
day. Lavrov had smoked them out with his concession the day before.
After decades of combat
experience,
who believes that Kurds cannot train their own troops?
But the Theater of the
Absurd cranked up to another level with
the Turkey-NATO flanking move into Iraq’s oil region. Different versions of the
story were leaked to different media to create a confusing situation that the
public would quickly tune out.
VT’s sources confirmed the
150-man force was a straw dog, that the real number was 1500, and the troops
and the tanks had been there for some time in various locations. Obviously Iraq
did not want to admit that they had never addressed it before.
Part of the media roll out
for this new Axis of Evil destabilization came from the Butch Cassidy and
Sundance Kid of the Senate.
John McCain and Lindsey
Graham were calling for 10,000 US troops to go into the Syrian-Iraq border
region as “guards”, and then behind that came stories of 90,000 more Gulf
troops under the guise of protecting the border… ten divisions, not counting
the Turks, to send a message to Baghdad to say bye-bye to Anbar province, as it
was going to be “guarded” for a long time.
We have long editorialized
at Veterans Today that without more international
pressure against these illegal military actions inside another state without
its permission, that they would grow in size to become permanent occupation
forces under the guise of counter-terrorism operations.
This is now turning into a
major East-West brinkmanship game, and so far the push back against it has been
weak, but fortunately not invisible.
Germany’s Merkel is walking
a tightrope in all this
Germany has refused to
share Intel with Turkey because it is an untrustworthy partner, a major slight
after Merkel pushed through the 3 billion Euros to Turkey for refugee support.
President Melos Zelman of
the Czech Republic states that despite Turkey being a NATO member state it
should never become an EU member because it “sometimes behaves as if it were an
ally of the Islamic State.”
Willy Wimmer, former state
secretary in the German Defense Ministry said that Ankara was “not in a
position” to drag NATO into a war, and stressed the military bloc would be
better off without Turkey.
We are also seeing growing
pushback on the EU’s Russian sanctions renewal that the US and NATO want
passed for another six months. Former French transport minister and current MP
Thierry Mariani has presented a resolution to the Parliament calling for the
lifting of anti-Russian sanctions due to the great economic harm they have done
to both countries. Italy has demanded that the sanctions extension be discussed
further before approval.
Back in the US there were a
few surprises, also. The leading lunatic in the Republican presidential race,
Ted Cruz has advocated carpet bombing ISIL with nukes. Listen to how low the US
has sunk in its political leadership:
“We will utterly destroy
ISIS. We will carpet bomb them into oblivion. I don’t know if sand can glow in
the dark, but we’re going to find out”, said Cruz as he was quoted in the Des
Moines Register. You just can’t make this stuff up.
Fortunately, the new
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, AF General Paul Selva, rejected Ted
Cruz’s suggestion. He countered with “…the US military does not now, and will
not in the future, engage in carpet bombings.”
Even Donald Trump got
a slap down by the Pentagon for
his stupid remark calling to ban all Muslims from coming into the country,
claiming it would help Daesh’s recruitment for a holy war.
Could we be calling
Ted Cruz the
“lunatic in chief” someday?
Iraq needs to get its act
straight. We heard of a
deadline for the Turks and all options are on the table, and then it is going
to the UN Security Council.
Next we hear a request for
the Russians to consider setting up an air base, and then that Baghdad wants to
“work things out” with Turkey. As I am writing Iraq says it will ask the UN to
get Turkey out of Iraq. Who knows what they will say tomorrow.
Erdogan responds to the
pull out ultimatum by saying hell no, he won’t go, as he is on an
anti-terrorism campaign for the US coalition, which is actually to be the
northern flank for taking the Kurds and Anbar province away from Iraq via a
permanent occupation.
I am seeing these moves as
baiting Russia and Iran into a wider
war to stop the NATO-Gulf State-Israel coalition from carving up Syria and Iraq
as they want, to do their pipeline dealing from the barrel of a gun. Colonial
gunboat diplomacy has unfortunately come back in fashion.
Jim W. Dean, managing
editor for Veterans Today, producer/host of Heritage TV Atlanta, specially for
the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”
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