{"id":103446,"date":"2018-09-08T19:13:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T23:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=103446"},"modified":"2018-09-08T19:15:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T23:15:22","slug":"idlib-represents-the-total-failure-of-the-neocon-zionist-control-of-americas-mideast-war-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=103446","title":{"rendered":"Idlib Represents the Total Failure of the Neocon Zionist Control of America’s Mideast War Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TMR<\/a> Editor’s Note:<\/strong> Never in American history has the whole world come to understand that the USA is actively supporting various terrorists groups as they make their last stand in Idlib Province, Syria.<\/p>\n

Talk about the theater of the absurd!<\/strong>\u00a0 In their sheer desperation to control Syria, the Neocon Zionist cabal has hijacked the U.S. military and is using American blood and treasure to support hardened terrorist groups to cut their losses in Syrian War.<\/p>\n

Really, how crazy is that?\u00a0 Compared to the fact that the American people seem to be clueless about this massive and odious betrayal, it’s not very crazy at all.<\/p>\n

Yes, there is very little being said about this repugnant misuse of the U.S. Armed Forces.\u00a0 But ignorance of the reality of a nation at war (an unprovoked war of naked aggression) is no excuse, especially when that war is being conducted in our name and with our tax dollars.<\/p>\n

It’s entirely true: American personnel are being used in Syria to run a protection racket coordinated by the C.I.A.\u00a0 The U.S. military is the enforcement arm of the racket.\u00a0 Like major General Smedley Butler said: “War is a racket!”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Do you know who, or whose assets, they are protecting.<\/p>\n

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The Millennium Report<\/a>
\nSeptember 8, 2018<\/p>\n

N.B. The article below lays out the grim realities of this Neocon-produced horror show.<\/p>\n

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Idlib: Al Qaeda\u2019s Last Stand<\/h2>\n

By Tony Cartalucci
\nGlobal Research<\/p>\n

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The United States has raised tensions further amid Syria\u2019s ongoing conflict. It has issued a threat in the form of a \u201cwarning\u201d against Damascus against retaking the northern region of Idlib. More specifically, the US has accused Damascus\u00a0of preparing chemical weapon attacks<\/a>\u00a0as part of its alleged strategy to retake the territory.<\/em><\/p>\n

No evidence has been provided by the US to substantiate these accusations \u2013 and it is clear that the warning was actually a threat implicating a planned, staged provocation likely to be followed by US military aggression.<\/p>\n

Idlib: Al Qaeda\u2019s Syrian Capital\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The northern city of Idlib has become the defacto capital for Al Qaeda in Syria.<\/p>\n

It is home to Al Qaeda affiliates, partners, and allies including Tahrir al-Sham \u2013 formally Jabhat Al Nusra, a US State Department-listed Foreign Terrorist Organization, Nour al-Din al-Zenki \u2013 a US-armed and backed military front notorious for its many war atrocities involving torture and executions including the beheading of a child, and Ahrar al-Sham\u00a0which has repeatedly cooperated with<\/a>\u00a0the self-proclaimed \u201cIslamic State in Syria and Iraq\u201d (ISIS).<\/p>\n

The nature of the militants occupying Idlib is well known to Washington, London, Brussels, and the Persian Gulf nations sponsoring them. It is because of this knowledge that the West\u2019s media monopolies work feverishly to cover up, deny, defend, or even excuse their atrocities.<\/p>\n

When Idlib-based terrorist front Nour al-Din al-Zenki beheaded a child,\u00a0the BBC disgracefully attempted to defend the atrocity<\/a>\u00a0by suggesting the boy was a \u201cfighter,\u201d and attempting to dispute his age, claiming:<\/p>\n

\u2026he appears to be as young as 10, although other reports suggest he is considerably older.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The BBC appears indifferent to the fact that if the victim had been a fighter and was over the age of 18, Nour al-Din al-Zenki would\u00a0still<\/i>\u00a0be guilty of an egregious war crime.<\/p>\n

BBC\u2019s defense of war atrocities committed by terrorist organizations occupying Syrian territory is the rule, not the exception \u2013 not just for British state broadcaster BBC, but the Western media as a whole. From the beginning of the 2011 conflict,\u00a0the BBC and others have played a direct role<\/a>\u00a0in covering up the terrorist affiliations of fighters attempting to overthrow the Syrian government.<\/p>\n

Terrorist Central \u2013 A Collaborative Western Project\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Idlib remains one of the last remaining strongholds of Al Qaeda in Syria specifically because of its proximity to the Turkish border \u2013 Turkey being a NATO member who has provided years of financial, political, and military support to militants operating in Syria.<\/p>\n

Idlib has been \u2013 since it fell to foreign-sponsored terrorists \u2013 so dangerous that much of the governorate is inaccessible to the Western media and Western organizations sending aid to groups occupying it.<\/p>\n

US-based think tanks have even written\u00a0entire papers on Idlib\u2019s status<\/a>\u00a0as a dangerous and dysfunctional epicenter of armed militancy. One 2016 paper published by\u00a0the Century Foundation<\/a>\u00a0titled, \u201cKeeping the Lights On in Rebel Idlib<\/a>,\u201d would admit:<\/p>\n

Restrictive border measures taken by the Turkish government and the security situation inside Idlib mean that access to Idlib is limited. Dangers include aerial bombing, but also the threat of kidnapping by entrepreneurial criminals and some of the groups referenced in this report. With some exceptions, independent Western researchers and journalists can no longer safely work inside Idlib province.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With extremists more recently uprooted from around Damascus and the southern city of Daraa sent to Idlib, the concentration of\u00a0\u201centrepreneurial criminals\u201d<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0\u201csome of the groups\u201d<\/i>\u00a0referenced by the Century Foundation has only risen.<\/p>\n

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In 2016, the Century Foundation admitted that because of the dangers involved in setting foot in Idlib, their research was conducted via remote interviews \u2013 meaning that the Western media today is likely also heavily reliant on such methods to collect information \u2013 when they are not simply fabricating it.The Century Foundation would also reveal another important aspect of Idlib\u2019s defacto status as Al Qaeda\u2019s Syrian capital \u2013 the extensive Western support keeping it afloat. The report first notes the leadership role extremist organizations play in Idlib:<\/p>\n

Islamist and jihadist armed groups hold power at the local level, and have developed relatively sophisticated service coordination bodies.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The report then admits the networks and local institutions these extremists preside over are entirely funded by the US, UK, and European Union (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

In addition to helping organize relief distribution, councils also provide some intermittently successful municipal services, ranging from operating bakeries to street-cleaning and trash disposal, repairs to the water grid, and road maintenance.\u00a0<\/i>
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Many of these more resource-intensive services are supported by international donors such as the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United Kingdom\u2019s Department for International Development (DfID)<\/b>, which have made support for civilian governance and service provision a priority. The United States has provided support through a number of offices, including both USAID proper and USAID\u2019s Office of Transition Initiatives (USAID\/OTI), whose \u201cSyria Regional Program\u201d has a more directed, political mandate to support moderate opposition organizations and promote values of tolerance. Some international assistance has been delivered through discrete, branded projects such as \u201cBil-Akhdar\u201d (In Green) and \u201cTamkeen\u201d (Empowerment), supported by donors including USAID, the United Kingdom Conflict Pool, and the European Union.\u00a0<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The report also makes mention of the now notorious \u201cWhite Helmets\u201d and the now defunded and exposed \u201cFree Police:\u201d<\/p>\n

Local councils coexist and cooperate with other nascent local institutions, including Syria Civil Defence emergency first responders (the \u201cWhite Helmets\u201d) and the Idlib Free Police, that are also supported by international donor governments.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While the West has doubled down on its support for the \u201cWhite Helmets\u201d despite extensive evidence linking them directly to Al Qaeda, the so-called \u201cSyrian Free Police\u201d have already been defunded.<\/p>\n

The Guardian in their August 2018 article titled, \u201cBritain to axe funding for scheme supporting Syrian opposition<\/a>,\u201d would admit:<\/p>\n

Britain was one of six countries supporting the community-led police force set up after the Syrian uprising in 2011.\u00a0<\/i>
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\n<\/i>The Panorama programme, Jihadis You Pay For, claimed police officers in Idlib province had to be approved by Jabhat al-Nusra and that police officers in Aleppo province were forced to hand over cash to Nour al-Din al-Zinki, another extremist group.<\/i>
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From the actual militant groups occupying Idlib, to the administrative networks attempting to run the region \u2013 it is clear extremism now holds the population hostage and does so specifically because of Western aid the West\u2019s own think tanks have exposed as ending up directly and exclusively in the hands of terrorists.<\/p>\n

Should this support be cut, the fighting capacity of terrorists occupying Idlib would quickly collapse. Continued support by the West of terrorists occupying Idlib ensures a bloody battle to finally liberate the civilian population held hostage and abused by these extremists.<\/p>\n

Idlib is thus every bit an \u201cIslamic State\u201d in practice as ISIS was in Raqqa, Syria and Mosul, Iraq \u2013 and an \u201cIslamic State\u201d made possible by extensive and fully conscious Western sponsorship.<\/p>\n

Truth Aside: The West\u2019s Window Dressing\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thus it is not Russian propaganda or a public relations office in Damascus exposing those occupying Idlib as terrorists or the necessity for Syrian forces to liberate the region \u2013 it is the Western media through their own incremental admissions made discretely beneath headlines and op-eds like the New York Times\u2019 recent piece titled, \u201cThe Death Blow Is Coming for Syrian Democracy<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n

The sub-heading for the NYT op-ed would read:<\/p>\n

The Assad regime\u2019s imminent assault on Idlib will empower jihadists and crush the last of the revolution\u2019s democrats. Why is the world standing by?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The absurdity of claiming security operations aimed at uprooting the terrorist occupiers of Idlib will\u00a0\u201cempower jihadists\u201d<\/i>\u00a0illustrates the departure from reality of much of\u00a0 what remains of the so-called \u201copposition.\u201d The op-ed laments in its conclusion that:<\/p>\n

The people of Idlib are aware that they will probably be abandoned to a fate similar to their countrymen in Daraa and Ghouta. Anger at their betrayal by the supposed democratic powers, already deeply rooted, is growing.\u00a0The residents understand that those who favor \u201cstability\u201d at any price perceive their continued resistance as an inconvenience. But the resumption of the regime\u2019s control in Idlib will not lead to peace, and still less to stability. It will eradicate the democratic alternative to tyranny, leaving the jihadists \u2014 who thrive on violence, oppression and foreign occupation \u2014 as the last men standing, to constitute a long-term threat to the region and the world.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But if\u00a0\u201cthe supposed democratic powers\u201d\u00a0<\/i>who engineered Syria\u2019s 2011 conflict and propped up the opposition in Idlib ever since don\u2019t really care about\u00a0\u201cdemocratic alternatives,\u201d<\/i>\u00a0they probably weren\u2019t really\u00a0\u201cdemocratic powers\u201d<\/i>\u00a0to begin with. Their interests in Syria were completely unrelated and merely obfuscated by \u201chumanitarian\u201d and \u201cdemocratic\u201d concerns, and the entire supposed \u201crevolution\u201d merely an obfuscation for Western-backed regime change in pursuit of regional and global hegemony.<\/p>\n

The so-called \u201copposition\u201d does not really exist as a functional, relevant factor in Syria\u2019s conflict and never did. It was a superficiality necessary to dress the windows of Western-backed, violent regime change pursued with equally violent, ruthless terrorist organizations.\u00a0 With the eviction of terrorists from Idlib complete, Syrian forces and their Russian and Iranian allies will have only a tenuous US occupation in eastern Syria and Turkey to the north to contend with.<\/p>\n

Attempts to portray Idlib as a bastion of democracy, the Syrian government as a ruthless dictatorship \u201cterrorizing\u201d the population when in reality it is eliminating militants both the West and Damascus agree are\u00a0actual<\/i>\u00a0terrorists \u2013 all constitute similar attempts at window dressing what is otherwise a very clear and concise battle \u2013 one between a sovereign nation defending and liberating its territory, and the proxies of a foreign invasion that have plagued Syria since 2011.<\/p>\n

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