‘AMERICA SICK AND TIRED OF SAUDI ARABIA’
said Senator Bernie Sanders
INTRODUCTION by Hugo Adan, October 12, 2014
In my opinion, 1st,
asking Saudis -the main funders of ISIS- to send troops is ridiculous, to say
the less. Pigs don’t fly nor kill themselves. The command of this war should be
re-defined by a UN-SC meeting and Russians, Iranes and the Assad-Syrian army plus
the Kurdish, and all those ready to send troops. They should be included in the top command in charge
of re-defining strategies and tactics,
and in charge of conducting the war against ISIS. Meanwhile, any illegal bombing
of Syria and Iraq should be stopped and the personnel who commit war and humanitarians
crimes should be indicted and placed in the hand of a special committee of the UN-ICC.
2nd, the
inconsistency in senator Sander’ stand, is typical in all those who support the
lack of strategy in Obama’s war. What we are doing is spending a lot of money in
bombing Syria and Iraq (not ISIS), we are killing innocent people and
destroying Syria-Iraq infrastructure with the story that we are fighting the
terrorists we armed, trained and funded. The fact is
that ISIS has not being affected by this strategy. So the title and
content of this article is misleading: we are not only sick about Saudis, most Americans
are sick of Obama policy in Syria
(regime change as main objective), and sick also of the US allies like the Saudis,
Qatar, Oman and Turkey and Israel who trained, armed and are funding ISIL
mercenaries since 2012.
Check that Senator Sanders said in this article vs. its
context: (that comes in red brackets is my)
An eminent US senator says
Americans are getting sick and tired of the Middle East region, particularly of
Saudi Arabia, and calls on Riyadh to send troops to fight the ISIL terrorist
group.
Vs.
Last month, Washington announced that some 30 countries agreed to join
the US-led coalition against ISIL terrorists, who were initially trained by the
CIA in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government. Saudi Arabia
reportedly provided the funding for the terrorist group.
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Bernie Sanders, one
of the US Senate's leading liberals, made the remarks on CNN’s “State of the
Union” program broadcast on Sunday.
He said that the
United States’ allies have not participated forcefully in the US-led airstrikes
against ISIL in Iraq and Syria because “they believe that the American
taxpayers… and American soldiers ultimately will do it.”
“This is not just an
American problem. This is an international crisis. This is a regional crisis,”
Sanders stated. [[Sanders forgot to say that we create
that problem and crisis]]
“I think the people
of America are getting sick and tired of the world and the region, Saudi Arabia
and the other countries saying, ‘Hey, we don't have to do anything about it.
The American taxpayer, the American soldiers will do all the work for us,’ ” he
added.
Last month,
Washington announced that some 30 countries agreed to join the US-led coalition
against ISIL terrorists, who were initially trained by the CIA in Jordan in
2012 to destabilize the Syrian government. Saudi Arabia reportedly provided the
funding for the terrorist group.
The group controls
large parts of Syria's northern territory and sent its fighters into Iraq in
June this year, quickly seizing vast expanse of land straddling the border
between the two countries.
Since September 23, the US and some of its Arab allies have
been conducting airstrikes against ISIL inside Syria without any authorization
from Damascus or a UN mandate. The air campaign has largely failed to halt ISIL
advances.
US warplanes have
also conducted hundreds of strikes against ISIL in Iraq since mid-August. Saudi
Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates have participated
in some of the airstrikes against ISIL.
Senator Sanders called on Saudi Arabia to send ground troops
to fight the group.
“I want the Saudi Arabian government to be actively involved. I want
their troops to be on the ground,” he said. “So, yes, I think we have to play a
very strong and supportive role with the UK, with France, with Canada, with
other countries. It cannot and should not be the United States alone.”
Syria has been
gripped by deadly violence since March 2011 with ISIL terrorists currently
controlling parts of Syria and Iraq. The Western powers and their regional
allies -- especially Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey -- have been supporting the
militants operating inside Syria since the beginning of the crisis.
ISIL terrorists have
committed widespread acts of violence, including mass executions, abductions,
torture and forcing women into slavery in the areas they have seized in Syria and
Iraq. They have threatened all
communities, including Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, Christians, Izadi Kurds and
others, as they continue their atrocities in the two countries.
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