ON OMRAN DAQEESH AND OBAMA'S DECISION TO DESTABILIZE SYRIA

ON OMRAN DAQEESH AND OBAMA'S DECISION TO DESTABILIZE SYRIA

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WRINGS ITS BLOODIED HANDS OVER ALEPPO TO TRY TO SHIFT BLAME FOR THIS FOREIGN POLICY DISASTER FROM ITSELF.

THE OBEDIENT MEDIA AND PRESS OBLIGE WITH HORROR STORIES FROM ALEPPO.

SADLY THE MEDIA IGNORE THE FACT OF OBAMA AND CLINTON'S COMPLICITY IN THE CONTINUING DESABILIZATION OF SYRIA, AND RESULTING EXPANSION OF ISIS.

The newspapers and TV reports are filled with pictures and horror stories from Aleppo. They are true. A recent touching photo of a little Syrian boy, Omran Daqeesh, obviously dazed and bloodied, is pictured sitting on an orange ambulance seat, apparently only minutes after having been pulled from the wreckage of his bombed out home. The picture has been displayed around the world. It rightly exposes and underscored the horrible tragedy of war and the sad fact that it is the innocents who suffer the most in these conflicts----children, the elderly, women, the poor and the defenseless. We all should be horrified.

But as well as the horror of war we must also be aware of the actions of those who are responsible directly and indirectly for the onset and continuation of this terrible civil war. Here in the USA, we are faced with the need to recognize that our own government has been complicit in this disaster. The President and his Secretary of State made calculating "political and foreign policy decisions" that purposely destabilized that nation and have made continuing decisions which have resulted in extending and intensifying the conflict in Syria. Their policies have increased the death and destruction and the evil horror of civil war. They bear a good part of the responsibility for the five year length and terrible intensity of the conflict in Syria. They bear equal blame in other surrounding nations...Iraq, Afghanistan, Lybia, Yemen....

In March 2011the Arab Spring protests reached Syria. The unrest grew out of the dissatisfaction with the long reigning Assad regime, sectarian tensions, failed political and economic reforms, climatic changes and a long drought affecting food crop yields, high food prices, and wealth inequality. Syria prior to the civil war was not a democracy. But it was a functioning nation. Early, cruel attempts of the Assad regime to put down the protests and riots, exacerbated the situation, resulting in more demonstrations and wider civil disobedience. In a few short weeks riots swept through the Kurdish areas of northeastern Syria. The unrest ultimately engulfed nearly the entire nation. These demonstrations of dissatisfaction with the Assad government were seen abroad, particularly in the USA, home of the "regime change" policies of recent decades, not as an unfortunate destabilizing event to be somehow quelled, but and as an opportunity to undermine what was viewed as a political foe. It was during this initial stage of instability in which the Obama Administration, foolishly decided to covertly intervene in Syria to increase sectarian tensions, destabilize the Assad government, topple that regime and replace it with some unknown, but (to their erroneous thinking) NEW government more amenable to American direction and interests. In this they foolishly followed policies of predecessors Bush and Cheney who had similar incoherent polices related to Syria. To that end they sent CIA activists, with bags of money into Syria to stir up the restive population and incite riots. The USA covertly encouraged (or looked the other way) as US counterparts in Saudi Arabia and Turkey joined in the destabilization of their neighbor state. The end results of these decisions became and remain a political and humanitarian disaster of proportions we have not seen since World War II.

The complicity of the Obama administration (with Hillary Clinton at the State Department) did not end there. More aid and money was spent by the Obama Administration to intensify and extend the human suffering, deaths and destruction. More and more money and increasingly sophisticated arms were ferried through Turkey's porous border to the insurgents to fight the legitimate government of Syria. Often these funds and arms only ended up in the hands of known terrorist groups. Then too there were major exposes of failure and stupidity. In September 16, 2015 in public Senate testimony Centcom Commander Gen. Lloyd Austin, revealed that the Obama Administration, spent $500 million dollars training what they envisioned would be "thousands" of anti- Assad "opposition" fighters resulted in only "four or five" fighters. The other trainees absconded with their uniforms, equipment and guns to join the various factions of Syria terrorists, such as the Kurds, al Nusra Front. Al Qaida, ISIS and others that make up the fractious groups in this senseless war.

Please note, that Obama expenditure of $100 million per anti-Assad fighter must be some kind of a record of inefficiency and stupidity.