Kristol is hoping that we have forgotten that in 1998 he, with Robert Kagan, formed The Project for a New American Century. The first thing that PNAC did was write to then POTUS Bill Clinton demanding regime change in Iraq. Two years later PNAC published Rebuilding America's Defenses which named Iraq and Iran as the greatest threats to US national security, calling for pre-emptive war on Iraq and Iran and other nations also deemed threats to US national security but recognising the need for a "new Pearl Harbor" to trick the American public into supporting such wars. On September 11th 2001, while Prez W was in Florida leaving senior members of PNAC in charge of the US government and military, 19 hijackers allegedly flew unimpeded 4 planes around the most protected airspace in the world for nearly 2 hours to eventually fly one of them into The Pentagon, thus giving PNAC its "new Pearl Harbor". Shortly after this blatant inside job, General Wesley Clark was told of a plan for totaler krieg on seven nations in five years. Four of those nations had been named in A Clean Break, written in 1996 by Zionists close to PNAC, and were (surprise!) Iraq and Iran, with Syria and Lebanon. The other 3 were Libya, Sudan and Somalia. Clark was also told in 1991 by Paul Wolfowitz that the USA had 5 to 10 years to take out those old Soviet client regimes; Iraq, Iran and Syria.
The intelligence on and guilt of Iraq post 9/11 was provided by...members of PNAC and authors of A Clean Break!
So these are the facts that Kristol hopes we forget when he suggests the following to deal with the current surge of ISIS in Iraq:
1. regular ground troops and special forces in Iraq;
2. air strikes on Iraq.
And to repeat this in Syria!
Sound depressingly familiar?
That alternative is to act boldly and decisively to help stop the advance of the forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)—without empowering Iran. This would mean pursuing a strategy in Iraq (and in Syria) that works to empower moderate Sunni and Shi’a without taking sectarian sides. This would mean aiming at the expulsion of foreign fighters, both al Qaeda terrorists and Iranian and Lebanese Hezbollah regular and special forces, from Iraq.
This would require a willingness to send American forces back to Iraq. It would mean not merely conducting U.S. air strikes, but also accompanying those strikes with special operators, and perhaps regular U.S. military units, on the ground.
[source : Fred Kagan and William Kristol, What to Do in Iraq, The Weekly Standard, http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/what-do-iraq_795057.html, 16th June 2014]
And here is the bit when Kristol impersonates Bart Simpson:
Now is not the time to re-litigate either the decision to invade Iraq in 2003 or the decision to withdraw from it in 2011. The crisis is urgent, and it would be useful to focus on a path ahead rather than indulge in recriminations.
And The
Even at this late date, President Obama is right to press for a more inclusive Iraqi government, along with the country’s territorial integrity and sovereignty within existing borders. Achieving these goals in the middle of a war, while other powerful interests and emotions are tugging Iraq apart, will not be an easy task, to say the least. It will require a sustained interest in Iraqi affairs, as well as a clear and credible willingness to use force, without which U.S. diplomacy will lack impact. But either of the alternatives — a strategic alliance with Iran, or acceptance of a jihadist statelet stretching from Syria into Iraq — would threaten regional and U.S. security.
[source : A more inclusive Iraq presents the best hope for the country, Editorial, Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-more-inclusive-iraq-presents-the-best-hope-for-the-country/2014/06/16/5e65eb94-f590-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html, 16th June 20154
All I can say to President Obama is:
These fools through the Emergency Committee for Israel produced videos attacking you last year. And now in Ukraine you are following the policies of the wife of the man who with Kristol co-founded PNAC!! You have been left to sort out the mess that they created. You are about to very embarrassingly lose your Nobel Peace Prize because of this lot. IGNORE THE FOOLS!
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