Lame U.S. Tries To Wash Its Hands Off Of Turkey's Operation ISIS Shield, As Iran, Assad, And Russia Look On With Approval

The war in Syria has nothing to do about democracy, or human rights, or freedom, or anything of that sort. The truth is that Syrians are bleeding and dying by the hundreds of thousands because Iran, Assad and Hezbollah want to continue to wage their war on Israel and liberate Palestine.

Syria is a chess piece for them in a much greater war. As Nasrallah recently said in an interview, the war against Syria via ISIS and other Jihadist proxies backed by the U.S. and NATO is Israel’s revenge for Hezbollah’s victory in the summer of 2006.

Israel decided that since it couldn’t defeat Hezbollah conventionally it would help train, fund, arm, and direct tens of thousands of suicide bombers and terrorists to destroy her enemies from within, starting in Syria.

Both sides are pursuing very vile and evil policies at the expense of peace, security, and prosperity for the peoples they’re supposedly leading.

What does the liberation of Palestine do for the minorities in the north of Syria who have become ISIS’s target, or for average Syrians in Aleppo and Damascus who just want to live a normal and productive life? Why must the peoples of Syria and other countries bleed and die for Palestinians to be free when Palestinians themselves could care less about the freedom of these peoples?

The leaders of Syria, Hezbollah and Iran have a lot to answer for, as do the leaders of Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and America who continue to believe that funding, training, and arming ISIS is a brilliant idea.

The big losers of this needless war has been the peoples of Syria. Hundreds of thousands have died. Millions more have been made refugees. Children and women have been taken captive by ISIS terrorists, to be sold and used as they see fit. Cities have been destroyed. The country has been hollowed out. Ancient artifacts have been either stolen or destroyed.

And is Palestine more free today than it was in 2011 when this war went into full swing?  Is Israel in greater danger of being conquered today by Muslims than it was in 2011?

Muslims have suffered the most at the hands of ISIS. That fact must never be forgotten.

But Muslims must be honest with themselves. Their disunity has harmed them immensely. Their leaders have abused their gullibility. Their oppression of the Kurds has provided America and Israel with a dagger to be used against them at will and then put back in their pocket for later use.

It is safe to say that Israel and America have won this round by making ISIS a political, social, geographical, and religious presence on the map of the Middle East. 

And it would not have been possible without the services of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, UAE, and Qatar.

An excerpt from, “Turkish forces deepen push into Syria, draw U.S. rebuke over their target” by Lisa Barrington and Umit Bektas, Reuters, August 29, 2016:

Turkish-backed forces pushed deeper into northern Syria on Monday and drew a rebuke from NATO ally the United States, which said it was concerned the battle for territory had shifted away from targeting Islamic State.

At the start of Turkey’s now almost week-long cross-border offensive, Turkish tanks, artillery and warplanes provided Syrian rebel allies with the firepower to capture swiftly the Syrian frontier town of Jarablus from Islamic State militants.

Since then, Turkish forces have mainly pushed into areas controlled by fighters aligned to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a coalition that encompasses the Kurdish YPG militia and which has been backed by Washington to fight the jihadists.

An excerpt from, “Moscow doesn’t want the Kurds to be too strong or too weak: Russian analyst” ARA News, August 28, 2016:

“Those statements are just usual rhetoric; it is always necessary to see if the words fit with the deed. I think now Russia wouldn’t mind that Kurdish positions be a little weakened by Turkey, but not to the extent that would render Kurds ineffective against other opposition groups in Syria. In short, Russia doesn’t want to see Kurds both as too weak and too strong,” he said.

An excerpt from, “Report: Iran Mediating Reconciliation Between Turkey, Syria” By Ali Waked, Breitbart, August 24, 2016:

The newspaper reported that Iranian sources in Turkey confirmed the reports of secret contacts between representatives of Syrian President Bashar Assad and representatives of the Turkish government. These contacts are intended to bring about a reconciliation between Assad and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

According to Asharq Al-Awsat, a senior diplomat is leading the discussions from the Turkish side, along with Ismail Haqi, a Turkish army general who led negotiations with Syria during the 1998 crisis between the two countries over the leader of Kurdish PKK activists Abdullah Ocalan.

Haqi visited Damascus and met with senior Syrian officials, including the number two man of the ruling Ba’ath party, Abdullah Alahmar, and the commander of Syria’s National Security Council, general Ali Mamluk, as well as Foreign Minister Walid Muallam.