undefined | Better HN

0 pointsbinarray20008y ago0 comments

> Because the IDF would have annihilated them. It's far easier to pick on haphazard regimes, who are generally incapable of organizing strategic defensive efforts.

Then why do I read an article like this in Jerusalem Post, quoting WSJ:

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Report-Israel-treating-al-Q...

They even quote Assad:

“Some in Syria joke: 'How can you say that al-Qaida doesn’t have an air force? They have the Israeli air force',” Assad told Foreign Affairs magazine earlier this year. “They are supporting the rebels in Syria. It is very clear.”

> ISIS was more about power and wealth than it was about ideology. The ideology was just a vehicle.

ISIS/AQ/Whatever-name-their-master-gives-them is a project to destabilize Syrian government that didn't want to play along with plans of the US empire for the Middle East. Quick summary of a FOIA document obtained by Judicial Watch:

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/05/newly-declassified-u-...

BTW, this document was produced in August 2012 by DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency; basically, Pentagon's Intel Agency). At that moment, guess who was its chief: Gen. Michael Flynn. Yes, that Flynn you now see in the media.

EDIT: A video of Flynn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Y274U7QIs&feature=youtu.be...

0 comments

2 comments · 2 top-level

dfsegoat8y ago

My apologies for being ignorant of these sources, and even just for failing to have the imagination to think about that scenario. I will do my homework better next time. Thank you.

knowThySelfx8y ago

Excellent. It isn't so hard to understand whats going on there. But I guess people often fall for popular narrative. Some do understand, but don't want to admit ;)

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse