Alwaght-The corporate-financier funded and directed policy think tank, the Brookings Institution, has served as one of several prominent forums documenting and disseminating America's foreign policy. It would host in part the architects of the so-called “surge” during the nearly decade-spanning America's occupation of Iraq, as well as battle plans for waging a covert war against Iran now well under way.
Part of this covert war against Iran involved the arming and backing of listed terrorist groups, and in particular, the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK) which has killed America's servicemen, American civilians, as well as more than 17000 innocent Iranians over the decades. Among those signing their name to this plan found within Brookings’ “Which Path to Persia?” report, was Kenneth Pollack. Now, in efforts to overthrow the government of Syria, also a stated and integral part of undermining, isolating, and destroying Iran, Pollack has revealed another element of the plan – to create a full-scale proxy military force outside of Syria, then subsequently invading and occupying Syria with it.
In the report titled, “Building a Better Syrian Opposition Army: How and Why,” Pollack cites the so-called “ISIS terrorist group” as the ultimate impetus for expanded America's intervention. However, upon looking at Pollack’s proposal, it merely looks as if America is using ISIS terrorist group as a pretext to more overtly intervene in order to overthrow the government of Syria – not in fact neutralize ISIS terrorist group.
…building a new Syrian army is best not done in Syria itself. At least not at first. The program would need the time and sanctuary to perform the necessary training, reorganization, sorting and socialization into a new Syrian army without the distractions and pressures of Syria itself. The Saudi offer to provide facilities to train 10,000 mercenary fighters is one of reasonable possibility, although one of Syria’s neighbors would probably be preferable. Jordan already serves as training ground for America’s current training program and it would be an ideal locale to build a real Syrian army. However, Turkey could also conceivably serve that purpose if the Turks were willing.
Clearly, not only is this already being done as admitted by Pollack himself, it is being done on a scale already eclipsing Pollack’s alleged plan – the only difference is it is being done through the use of Takfiri terrorists - not the imaginary, nonexistent secular professionals Pollack uses as a marketing gimmick to sell this scheme.
Surely, Pollack’s plan will never materialize in any practical dimension – however it may be possible to use such a marketing ploy to pour more resources into both the ongoing proxy war against Syria and Iran in general, and more specifically into the terrorist battalions already being armed, funded, trained, equipped, and sent off from Jordan and Turkey into Syrian territory. Handing advanced weapon systems into the hands of front groups consisting of intentionally ineffectual, immensely corrupt, incompetent America's proxies is as good as handing the weapons directly to ISIS terrorist group – and of course – this is precisely how America is building its actual “new opposition army” – namely, in the form of ISIS terrorist group itself.
Removing Pollack’s rhetoric about secular professionals, and inserting “ISIS” terrorist group reveals Pollack’s paper as the actual already ongoing plan to overrun not only Syria, but pro-Iranian factions in Iraq, and perhaps even Iran itself. ISIS terrorist group is a massive mercenary army trained and funded abroad by America with its support laundered via Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, and Turkey, staged along Syria’s borders in both Jordan and Turkey, and acquiring an impressive arsenal just as what is required in Pollack’s plan to enter into and overthrow the government of Syria – minus eradicating terrorists of course.
Even a cursory look at ISIS terrorist group's holdings across the region reveal ratlines leading into NATO-member Turkey’s territory and all along the Turkish-Syrian border where news outlets like the New York Times and Washington Post have reported for years the CIA had been operating – unloading billions in aid, gear, weapons, and even vehicles to terrorists fighting within Syria.
ISIS terrorist group is organized on a professional level precisely as described by Pollack, most likely the result of America's military advisers and their counterparts in Saudi and Qatari special operations. ISIS terrorists group is also heavily armed precisely as was required by Pollack’s plan. They now possess an impressive and ever growing arsenal of weapons including tanks, missiles of all kinds, artillery, and even a small collection of aircraft including Russian warplanes and American helicopters.
Today, we estimate that ISIS terrorist group has less than a total of 30 working M1 Abrams tanks and howitzers that are either self-propelled or towed behind trucks (based on our knowledge of how the Iraqi army is equipped and what divisions were in the north). These are the weapons that gave the ISIS terrorist group the advantage over the Peshmerga in recent firefights. Yet ISIS terrorist group does not have the highly trained maintenance crews that are necessary to keep these weapons in good working order. The same problem exists for its armored Humvees and Mine Resistant Ambush Protected personnel carriers. Without maintenance, these captured America's vehicles and weapons will break down.
Only, ISIS terrorist group’ Saudi, Qatari, and Jordanian sponsors most definitely do possess the highly trained maintenance crews necessary to keep these weapons in good working order – since these despotic regimes each in turn possess a large number of exactly these weapon systems purchased from America itself. If the Saudis in particular, can fund, train, and arm ISIS terrorist group with small arms and missiles, how difficult would it be to supply them with spare parts and properly trained maintenance crews? Turkey also maintains a number of America's weapon systems, and possesses the ability to maintain modern battle tanks if not the M1 specifically – and is already harboring, supplying, and backing ISIS terrorist group – another inconvenient truth challenging Weiss’ attempts to mislead readers.
In fact, Pollack’s “proposal” appears more like an after-action report. ISIS terrorist group is the “better Syrian oppositions” the West has sought all along. That is probably why attempts by America to “fight” ISIS terrorist group appear half-hearted and why those America is supposedly “saving” from ISIS terrorist group see Western intervention as more of a threat than ISIS terrorist group itself believing it is designed simply to prolong ISIS’ terrorist group existence in the face of growing and increasingly more formidable indigenous opposition.
Any provisions to build Pollack’s “army” will undoubtedly end up only bolstering ISIS terrorist group and its affiliates – just as military aid policymakers like Pollack at Brookings advocated for the arming of “moderates” resulted in the creation of ISIS terrorist group in the first place. While America desperately attempts to disown responsibility for ISIS terrorist group’ creation and perpetuation through an unconvincing propaganda campaign, false flag terror strikes against the “homeland,” and a series of increasingly ludicrous, orchestrated strawman victories in Iraq and Syria – Damascus, Baghdad, and Tehran are leading the real fight against ISIS terrorist group.
America apparently plans on protecting ISIS terrorist group for as long as possible under the guise of being the sole force “fighting it,” while ISIS terrorist group consolidates and moves on Western designated targets. In the process of “fighting” ISIS terrorist group, America is managing to destroy Syrian infrastructure and defenses. America, however, has failed in attempts to exclude Syrian, Iraqi, and Iranian forces from countering the ISIS terrorist group threat and now the region is witnessing a race between ISIS terrorist group’ inevitable destruction and America’s attempts to topple Damascus before ISIS terrorist group vanishes from its geopolitical toolbox.
Source: Global Research
