Clearly, the Pentagon hates the CIA support for the "moderate rebels". The CIA support has fed not only the "rebels" but also al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. Continuing that path would likely result in a radical al-Qaeda controlled Syrian government and another thankless, years long military expedition to oust it.
Are Green Berets Leading the YPG?
If you haven’t been completely distracted by the corporate media (see GOP circus, see Kardashians), you might know that there is an 8-way clusterfuck going on in Syria. You see stories about how we support both the Turks and the Syrian/Iraqi Kurds, but the Turks are shelling the Kurds across the border. People scratch their heads about this.
I had been of the “arm ‘em all. Profits from everyone” school here; but the article I just quoted from proposes a theory straight out of the X-Files — an in-the-shadows death match between the Pentagon and the CIA. Now, I’m sure this will instantly get the label CT. (I’m sure someone will inform me that Moon over Alabama is either a CT site or part of Russia Today.) But, there are some interesting facts that are hard to deny:
1) The Saudis have owned the CIA since the days of “The Safari Club”, infamously disclosed by Prince Turki himself. The larger circumstances that created the Safari Club were documented by Joseph Trento in Prelude to Terror. The Rogue CIA and the Legacy of America's Private Intelligence Network. The whole Syrian war is effort by KSA to advance it’s interests, and to grab more oil.
2) The Pentagon Sabotaged the White House in 2013 by sharing intelligence with the Syrians. (Yes, I know, Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersch is now CT. Tell me another one.) This demonstrates how deep the hatred runs and how out of control of the government the military has become. The CIA has been out of control from day one. See David Talbot’s The Devil's Chessboard - Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government.
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As in my last diary, I just want to grab people and shake them out of the media stupor. We are sleepwalking towards another world war, starting in Syria. Ergodan is a violent, theocratic nutcase and we support him. The Saudi prince is a loose cannon theocrat and we support the Yemeni invasion. None of this gets on the TV box here. They are squandering hundreds of billions of dollars fighting for oil when we need to move to green energy, but none of that is newsworthy. Do they ever mention that the whole war is over oil pipeline routes?
I have two final comments on the article:
1) the confusion on the ground could certainly reflect conflicting clandestine agendas within the out-of-control spookland that is the Black Budget. It’s hard to get your act together if part of the team is busy sabotaging the whole effort.
2) Why are my tax dollars paying for an internecine war?
BTW — the comments section of the Moon Over Alabama article ranges from interesting to looney tunes. But at least it is nowhere near as repetitively boring as the horserace politics coverage.