By:Jim Jatras | August 12, 2016
No
one paying attention with even one eye and half an ear can be ignorant
of the fact that when it comes to this year’s election the MSM are lying
shills for Hillary. But now it seems they’re all suffering from amnesia
too.
The latest “OMG, Trump said that!” moment is The
Donald’s claim that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are,
correspondingly, the “founder” and “cofounder” of ISIS. True to form,
the media reaction has been to shriek in outrage that he would cast
aspersions on such august personages.
As
of this writing, not one American media source of which this writer is
aware has brought up in relation to Trump’s claims the August 2012
report (
declassified and released in 2015 under a FOIA request from Judicial Watch)
from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) stating that “there is the
possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist
principality in Eastern Syria, and this is exactly what the supporting
powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime.”
The “supporting powers” are identified as “western countries” (no doubt
including and led by the United States), “the Gulf States” (presumably
including and led by Saudi Arabia), and “Turkey” (just Turkey).
In
August 2012 the Secretary of State at the time was one Hillary Rodham
Clinton. The President was and still is one Barack Hussein Obama.
The
DIA report said, in essence, that if we (the U.S. and our local
cronies) keep aiding al-Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other such
sterling democrats, something really nasty would arise in eastern Syria.
Several months later, it did, when ISIS declared itself a state
straddling the Syria-Iraq border.
At some point, even a
three-year-old picks up on the concept of causation. “Johnny, if you
keep doing that, you’ll [break it, hurt yourself, whatever].” The MSM
would have us think that Obama and Hillary are less intelligent than a
three-year-old. By dumping funds and arms into the hands of
terrorists—only the supposedly “moderate” head-choppers, of course—they
had no idea, poor dears, what might happen.
Except they did.
Aside from the cautionary example of the chaos Libya was thrown into by
“regime change” in 2011, not to mention the appearance of al-Qaeda in
the first place as a precipitate from the Afghan war against the
Soviets, they had every reason to heed what amounted to a forewarning
from DIA. Instead, they decided to press on, aware of the likely result.
This was intended: “ . . . this is exactly what the supporting powers
to the opposition want.”
General Michael Flynn, currently a Trump
adviser, took over as head of DIA a month before the issuance of the
report in question. Whether it was his personal effort to caution the
administration or simply the professional analysts in the DIA apparatus
laying out the facts as they saw them, the 2012 report made no
difference. As
Flynn confirmed last year, this was not a matter of the administration’s turning a “blind eye” but of their “willful decision” that led to ISIS:
Hasan:
You are basically saying that even in government at the time you knew
these groups were around, you saw this analysis, and you were arguing
against it, but who wasn’t listening?
Flynn: I think the administration.
Hasan: So the administration turned a blind eye to your analysis?
Flynn: I don’t know that they turned a blind eye, I think it was a decision. I think it was a willful decision.
Hasan: A willful decision to support an insurgency that had Salafists, Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood?
Flynn: It was a willful decision to do what they’re doing.
Let’s
put into broader context the Fourth Estate’s malfeasance in not
connecting the 2012 DIA report to Trump’s accusation. In the last couple
of weeks we’ve seen a steady
parade of Republican poobahs and mandarins coming out against Trump (some overtly for Hillary though most pretending there’s some other alternative), plus a veritable
Who’s Who of the Deep State responsible for every God-awful mess abroad, in both
a GOP lineup and
a bipartisan one.
(If Trump does win, he’ll at least save time not having to draw up his
own Enemies’ List.) And let’s not forget the former Acting CIA Director
who’s
calling for assassinations of Russian personnel (and Iranians) in Syria. Sure! It’s all in good fun! What could possibly go wrong?
In
a decent society, most of these people would be in jail, not telling us
who’s “unqualified” to keep implementing the same disastrous policies
they’ve given us all these years. Instead, their sage pronouncements are
given saturation media exposure while the smoking gun that proves
Trump’s case on ISIS gets the Memory Hole.
To say the playing
field is tilted doesn’t even begin to describe it. The real question is
whether the American public can see it for what it is.
Jim
Jatras, a former US diplomat and foreign policy adviser to the Senate
GOP leadership, comments on financial and foreign policy topics and on
U.S. politics in his publication TheJIM!gram. Tweet him at @JimJatras.
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