Please read the following, and keep in mind that this is propaganda being issued by Iran, targeted at muslims in the west. It is important to understand how the opposition is developing support for their position, regardless how ridiculous and/or obtuse their position may at first seem to us. Note, in the second article [below the photo], where it is claimed that many men are coming to Syria to fight purely for the pay – $3,000 up front and $200/month – who are being trained by US military “advisers”, and then being radicalized there by Al Nursa and affiliated Al-Qaeda groups. They are, in essence, blaming the US for Al Qaeda terrorism, among other claims. There is a multi-element question to be addressed when evaluating each such claim: 1. how close is this claim to being true? 2. Who does this claim target to incite [or to demoralize]? 3. who benefits from the propagation of this belief?
I’ve highlighted a few phrases in the following articles to give you some sense of where the pivotal manipulation points are, and will state plainly my belief that this article is targeted at British, US, and Canadian muslims, to subtly instigate their distrust and anger against the governments of their host nations, and which feeds an underlying sense of justification for terrorist acts against Western Culture and EU/US governments, as well as intensifying the sublimated conflict between Sunni and Shia muslims overall.
(PressTV, Iran) The U.S. military is considering ways to send troops to Lebanon and Iraq, where U.S. authorities say need tighter security measures in border areas.
Gen. Martin Dempsey said during a Pentagon briefing on Wednesday that the U.S. military is going to assist the two countries’ military capabilities. The assistance, he said, could include training teams.
The U.S. is also planning to accelerate sales of weapons to Lebanon and Iraq, according to Dempsey.
As the terrorist group of al-Qaeda has been fighting the Syrian government since two and a half years ago, the U.S. fears that local al-Qaeda group offshoots in Lebanon and Iraq could pose fresh threats to Syria’s neighbors.
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American Policy Heads to the “Other Side of the Mirror”
When American CIA and Special Forces personnel received the orders to arm and train Syrian rebels, a week ago, they were flabbergasted. Many had been “on the ground” for months or longer, had seen the ‘Free Syrian Army’ purged and overrun with Jihadists, that and supplanted in its combat role by al-Qaeda in Iraq partner, al-Nusra.
[It is] not all jihadists [who] come to Jordan and Turkey and, eventually enter Syria (and Iraq) as terrorists. Most come for the $3,000 cash payment to their families, for the $200 per month, for the food and, frankly, for the free cigarettes.
Most don’t arrive as hardcore Jihadists or terrorists, in fact few do. Most, if not all, however, those who survive, will leave, US trained and supplied but al-Qaeda led, “blooded,” radicalized and ready to move against Iraq, against Jordan or to set up terror cells across Europe and North America.
Insanity or Beyond Insanity?
What is America thinking, has it, as Paul Craig Roberts and so many others, even Zbigniew Brzezinski have observed, “lost their minds?”
To all but the mentally challenged, the Global War on Terror is an artificial construct, 90% false flag terror, 90% bank robbery, 90% “Hollywoodism.”
You say the total is more than 100%? Welcome to the “new math.”
The terror “game” was supposed to replace the Cold War but better, helpless enemies, the chance to use new hi-tech weapons on defenseless civilians, a change to use a controlled press to manage the narrative and the lesson of World War II, a “slam bang” take-off, propelled by 9/11, long admitted, long proven to be the “New Pearl Harbor.”
The basis of America’s program of encirclement of Russia and China that began with the Truman Doctrine in 1947 was the “domino theory.”
If one nation fell to communism, such as Cuba or Nicaragua or Greece, we could name dozens, perhaps even mention Vietnam; the entire world would fall, “like dominos.”
Domino Theory in Reverse
It is now clear that the “Arab Spring” revolutions, purported to be an “instantaneous uprising” of “freedom loving” Muslims, a “grass roots” movement based on social media, whistleblowing and democratic reform has taken on a sinister side.
Tunisia’s could be believed, initially at least. In Libya, Gaddafi’s flamboyance and alienated many but when the turn came for the UN to authorize use of force to bring about regime change, a move both Russia and China backed, more should have seen something very wrong.
When Gaddafi was brutally murdered, the outline of what would continue was now unquestionable. Freedom was the last thing these revolutions would bring; this was clearly as “softening up” in preparation for what many now see a reestablishment of the Ottoman Empire.
Syria and Iraq, both beleaguered by terrorist groups, Western backed, air support from the international psychopaths, Turkey and Israel, are going to be the dominos that bring the United States to its knees.
A Warning Anyone Could See
Egypt’s revolution has been the greatest disaster so far. A nation long under the thumb of Mubarak’s corrupt dictatorship, his long partnership with Israel and their Arab cohorts, the general uprising of the Egyptian people held great promise.
It would and well should have immediately opened Gaza, removed walls, fences, ended the naval blockade and put a friendly air force in Gaza skies.
Nothing of the kind happened, nothing of the kind is even spoken of.
While Mubarak awaits trial and execution for his secret complicity with Israel, Morsi calls on Egyptians to march on Syria in a jihad on behalf of Israel, something even Mubarak would never have contemplated.
You see, the Muslim Brotherhood is but another CIA “construct” from the Cold War days, one of several such as the Mujahedeen, ideological powerhouses to feed the wars on the periphery of the Soviet Union, Bosnia and Kosovo, Chechnya and Afghanistan.
Nuke the whole damn region, radiation won’t hurt oil.