George Washington, after 1796, by Gilbert Stuart (Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute)
BY G. Edward Griffin |NeedToKnowNews.com and Tyler Durden| ZEROHEDGE
THE WARNING:
In his 1796 Farewell address, George Washington, the First President of the United States, said: “Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. … Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.”
THE CONSEQUENCES of ignoring that advice are painfully evident in this this week’s news: The late Saudi foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, told John Kerry in 2014, ‘Daesh [ISIS] is our response to your support for the Da’wa – the Tehran-aligned Shia Islamist ruling party of Iraq’ after the city of Mosul fell to the US military offensive. In other words, the Saudis created ISIS in response to US intervention in the region that shifted the balance of power to Iran. According to a CIA document, the US approved of this plan and intended to use ISIS to topple Syrian President Assad.
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On the day Barack Obama is kowtowing to his Saudi allies, and just days after a senior Obama administration finally made the admission that has been a “conspiracy theory” for years namely that “a lot of the money, the seed money if you will, for what became Al Qaeda, came out of Saudi Arabia,” the FT is out with another stunning revelation.
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The FT has written an article that supposedly focuses on the US sources of growing diplomatic antipathy between the US and Saudi Arabia.
The source of disagreement: the treatment of Iran.
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As US President Barack Obama arrives on a valedictory visit to Saudi Arabia this week, that 70-year-old bargain looks frayed by fractious relations with a ruling House of Saud that is coming under unpredictable new management. The shale-based energy revolution meanwhile shows the potential to liberate the US from dependence on Saudi and Gulf oil. Mr Obama’s main foreign policy achievement, the nuclear deal struck last year between international powers and Iran, is abhorrent to Saudi Arabia, whose virulently sectarian Wahhabi interpretation of Sunni Islam abominates the Shia Islam of Iran and its Arab network of co-religionists from Baghdad to Beirut.
But it was not just Iran.
“Even when the Iran deal was only at an interim and fragile stage in 2013, the Saudis were so affronted they rejected a seat for which they had vigorously lobbied on the UN Security Council. But differences between Washington and Riyadh had been steadily accumulating — starting with the fact that it was mainly Saudi terrorists, on orders of the Saudi Osama bin Laden, who struck America on 9/11.”
However the real reason for Iraqi fury at Obama goes further back. In fact, it appears that all current events are shaped by the disastrous foreign policy of Obama's early years, namely the US intervention behind the Arab Spring:
The Saudis could never reconcile themselves to the US-led invasion of Iraq, not because it toppled Saddam Hussein but because it led to Shia majority rule in an Arab country. When Hosni Mubarak was toppled by Egypt’s popular revolt in 2011, Riyadh accused Mr Obama of betraying a US ally. Saudi perceptions of US complacency in the face of Iran’s advances in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen are a grievance far outweighing western perceptions of Isis jihadism as the main threat in and from the Middle East.
But the punchline: Saudi's admission that it itself created Daesh, or ISIS. As for the twist: as the late Saudi foreign minister says, the Saudis only created ISIS in response to Obama's disastrous policy in the region.
To wit:
After the Iraqi city of Mosul fell to a lightning Isis offensive in 2014, even the late Prince Saud al-Faisal, the respected Saudi foreign minister, remonstrated with John Kerry, US secretary of state, that “Daesh [Isis] is our [Sunni] response to your support for the Da’wa” — the Tehran-aligned Shia Islamist ruling party of Iraq.
And there you have it, and as a reminder, the person who was in charge of US foreign policy during this entire period was none other than…
But that is just part of the story.
As we revealed last year courtesy of leaked CIA documents, according to investigative reporter Nafeez Ahmed the “leaked document reveals that in coordination with the Gulf states and Turkey, the West intentionally sponsored violent Islamist groups to destabilize Assad, despite anticipating that doing so could lead to the emergence of an ‘Islamic State’ in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
“According to the newly declassified US document, the Pentagon foresaw the likely rise of the ‘Islamic State’ as a direct consequence of the strategy, but described this outcome as a strategic opportunity to “isolate the Syrian regime.”
In other words, the Saudis may have created ISIS in response to US foreign policy, but this had been known all too well to the US from the beginning, who not only were “in on it”, but actively groomed the terrorist organization, ostensibly through a clandestine spy organization whose name is conveniently abbreviated to just three letters.
Which ultimately means that just like Al Qaeda was funded, i.e., created, by Saudi Arabia, so its replacement on the global bogeyman scale, the Islamic State terrorist are nothing more than conveniently puppets, played from day one by the interplay of Saudi and US national interests.
And since the US clearly knew about the formation of ISIS, it is also safe to assume that the US government may well have been aware of the tactics and strategy used by Al Qaeda, especially on that fateful day of September 11, 2001.
When will this be confirmed? Hopefully just as soon as those “28 pages” of high confidential documents are finally declassified. We are holding our breath…
Obama wasn’t elected for another 7 years after 911? Were you just being ironic to make fun of tea party types? Can’t tell…
The statement was referring to the continued practices of war.
Pretty specifically mentions Obama administration twice for some heavy stuff. I agree he’s been disappointing but your statement makes me think more of Bush (CheanyRumsfeld)
Obama was elected in 2008…so if you want to discuss Middle East policy under Obama, since his election, that’s a valid discussion. Or if you want to discuss US policy since 9/11, that’s another thing. But there is no “real truth about what has been happening in the Middle East under Obama since Sept 11, 2001”.
When I first read I thought it was one of those “Thanks Obama” jokes…it takes away from the truth of their argument.
If you really want to lump it all together it’s been happening since the end of WW2…when we decided to abandon our secular roots and start injecting ” religion” into everything.
See how singapore becomes a success country cz they rule without religions aspect
Once religions become a pilar of one country there will war and dirty politics
Excuse me??
Really, this article is absurd. Get your facts/ideas ducks in a row people
Wtf
9/11 was under the murderous Bush Administration!!
Wow you guys are a bunch of bitches…I have no love for Obama but you going to blame the Nazi regime on Obama as well? Pretty sure he has relative alive at the time so it had to be his fault right?
Just garbage!!
Poppy-cock! There is now–and then–they will never meet Times have changed in case you did not notice??
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Obviously, y’all don’t care about the truth.
There’s old George, so the rest of this, makes even less sense!!!
More than likely if believe it. I’m rarely surprised by our government …
“The Obama Administration since 2001”? This has very little to do with Obama. We are taught in public school that the USA stands for truth, justice, democracy, and fair markets. Since the early years the US government has used shady dealing to get its way. Panama was one example. In the Middle East, Iran had a democratically elected government, but they nationalized the oil companies property, so the US put the Shah in power, and he was worse than Saddam. Conservative talk show hosts ask, “Why do they hate us? They are jealous of our way of life.” Bull. We back any evil government that is willing to give us our way. I want a president who will make us what we say we are, the good guys.
What is the truth then since you know and we don’t? Cut the shit