State Sponsor Of Terrorism
The enemy of my enemy is my friend – Arab proverb?
No one can possibly be this stupid. Arabs know better, so this is probably something they foist on outsiders. The enemy of my enemy is, at best, a temporary ally, and no more.
The US should know this because al Qaeda was born from the remnants of the forces it supported to oppose the Soviets in Afghanistan. If the US had been a friend, it would have paid all its bills and not abandoned Afghanistan after the Soviets withdrew.
The US is at it again, looking for surrogate armies to bother Iran.
ABC News Exclusive: The Secret War Against Iran
A Pakistani tribal militant group responsible for a series of deadly guerrilla raids inside Iran has been secretly encouraged and advised by American officials since 2005, U.S. and Pakistani intelligence sources tell ABC News.
The group, called Jundullah, is made up of members of the Baluchi tribe and operates out of the Baluchistan province in Pakistan, just across the border from Iran.
As Steve of No More Mister Nice Blog notes, some time ago it was determined that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the al Qaeda operation officer behind 9-11, was one of the founders of the Jundullah.
U.S. protects Iranian opposition group in Iraq
An Iranian opposition group based in Iraq, despite being considered terrorists by the United States, continues to receive protection from the American military in the face of Iraqi pressure to leave the country.
It’s a paradox possible only because the United States considers the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, or MEK, a source of valuable intelligence on Iran.
Iranian officials tied the MEK to an explosion in February at a girls school in Zahedan, Iran.
As for getting intelligence about Iran from the groups, does anyone remember Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress?
In the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, under his guidance the INC provided a major portion of the information on which U.S. Intelligence based its condemnation of Saddam Hussein, including reports of weapons of mass destruction and alleged ties to al-Qaeda. Much of this information has turned out to be false. That, combined with the fact that Chalabi subsequently gloated about the impact that their falsifications had in an interview with the British Sunday Telegraph, led to a falling out between him and the United States.
I was wrong when I said nobody could be this stupid – the Shrubbery and Darth Cheney are this stupid.
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Gah! The stupidity! It burns, it burns!
Must… go… soak…head……in….toilet… now.
— Badtux the Head-exploded Penguin
It is truly amazing how every low rent group of whackos on the planet knows how to play the current US government for fun and profit.
The US should know this because al Qaeda was born from the remnants of the forces it supported to oppose the Soviets in Afghanistan. If the US had been a friend, it would have paid all its bills and not abandoned Afghanistan after the Soviets withdrew.
Amen, brother.
I had an old friend scream at me for pointing this out in the Fall of 2001. Of course, everyone’s nerves were shot right after 9/11, and back then we didn’t know then just how much more Bushco was going to screw things up. (I just hope I don’t find myself saying that again in 12 months. 🙁 )
Yeah, but Bryan, this isn’t just any old low-rent group of whackos. This is a group of whackos founded by al Qaeda. Like, the dudes who attacked us on 9/11? That al Qaeda?
I thought the Bush administration could not descend further into stupidity. I thought wrong. Gah!
– Badtux the “Oh my achin’ head!” Penguin
They keep doing the same thing and expect a different result.
The Kurds put up with us, but remember how often the US has screwed them. The Shi’ia remember how the first Bush abandoned them after Gulf War I. They are not our friends, because we haven’t been their friends.
Iran and Syria cooperated with the US after 9/11 and got treated like dirt, with the administration refusing to talk to them and accusing them of all kinds of things. They are not nice people, but the leaders took a chance and backed the US for a period to see what would happen. What happened was they were slandered. They have done a lot of bad things, so there’s no point in accusing them of things they haven’t done.
The current administration isn’t interested in friends or partners, it wants slaves.
It’s strange how they never seem to catch Osama or his doctor. It’s odd how they haven’t figured out that now, almost every Sunni group has ties to al Qaeda. They are probably getting Osama tips from the Jundullah.
You’re right Tux, they are backing a group that KSM, the mastermind of 9/11, helped create, and they have to know it. The senior guys were certainly trained in Afghanistan when the Taliban was in power.
It’s just mind boggling.
They keep doing the same thing and expect a different result.
Worse, their outlook seems to encompass… at most… six months. There is absolutely no long-term thinking on the part of the idiots in charge. Having decided to ignore all the information and wisdom bequeathed them by previous administrations, not just Clinton’s but his predecessors’, including 41, they are on their own, completely dependent on their own faulty “intelligence” (and considering the stovepiping, I use the term very loosely) and their own strategy (apparently on a par with that of a gang of bullies in the schoolyard).
What has happened to “the vision thing” that Dubya’s daddy spoke of?
Instead of the Soviet five-year plans, they have a six-month plan, and they keep using the same plan, over and over. They act like the purpose of intelligence is to justify their plan.
When you review what they have done, you can see that beyond tax cuts, don’t regulate anything, and NCLB they don’t have any actual policies. If they didn’t do it in Texas, they don’t know how to do it. Intel is treated like opposition research – looking for the bad, not understanding the whole picture.