Obama has thrown another ally under the bus – the Kurds.

I found the blog entry below about the Kurds, Turkey, ISIS and the USA written in April of 2015 that was never published in my blog. I am copying it in this entry because it is now late July 2015 and the story of the Kurds, Turkey, ISIS and the USA has taken a bizarre turn that defies reality.

Obama has thrown another ally under the bus – the Kurds.

07/27/2015: When the USA was in Iraq, the only domestic military entity that they could rely on to perform was the Kurds of northern Iraq. The Kurds secured the northern oilfields in their sector from invasion by ISIS and provided a safe haven for Westerners including the military, reporters and aid workers. There was nowhere else in Iraq that had this level of security.

A few days ago, there was an announcement that Turkey, who had allowed ISIS fighters to flow unimpeded form Turkey into Syria, was going to allow the US military to stage aerial raids against ISIS on the Turkish borders and the Turkish air force would assist. It turns out that the Turkish air force is bombing the PKK Kurdish rebels fighting ISIS because of a longstanding conflict with this minority on their border. It must be noted that a ceasefire was holding with the PKK until the Turks allowed ISIS fighters into Syria – fighters who were turning around and fighting the Kurds. Meanwhile, the USA is not only turning a blind eye to this atrocity, but is complicate in this crime against humanity by partnering with the Turks while this massacre proceeds.

Obama threw Egypt under Mubarak under the bus for the Muslim Brotherhood, he threw the Syrian people under the bus with his fake “red line” for Assad, he threw Israel under Netanyahu under the bus for Iran, and now he is throwing the Kurds under the bus for Turkey. When will this disjointed wreck of a foreign policy end, and how on earth will our next President deal with Obama’s scorched earth policy vs.-a-vies our traditional allies?

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Written 04/2015

Between the time I write this letter and the time it is published, over 20,000 Kurds will be slaughtered in Syria by ISIL.  President Obama claims he wants to “degrade and destroy” this pernicious, evil entity, but he has refused to allow our air force to overfly Syria where ISIL finds safe haven and a population to exploit. Turkey, which shares a border with the Kurdish area of Syria, has fought a long border war with the Syrian Kurdish militia called PKK. The Turks have a massive military presence overlooking this massacre and they seem to be enjoying every minute of it.

The Kurds want an independent country, and there is no question that their claims are more deserving and legitimate than the Palestinians. They Kurds are a separate ethnic group distinct from the all the other people of the Mideast and total over 30 million throughout Iraq, Syria Turkey and Iran in a four border region known as Kurdistan. Unlike the Palestinians, they have a distinct language, culture, DNA, foods, customs – and for the most part they are intelligent, trustworthy people who are not religiously radicalized. They have shown a propensity to embrace Western culture, economics and education. They were our most trusted allies when the USA was in Iraq - and we have totally abandoned them.

Turkey, on the other hand, did not allow US military access to Iraq through Turkey, even though Turkey is a NATO member bordering Iraq. Turkey has refused to join the Obama led coalition against ISIL and in fact has allowed the unfettered flow of ISIL recruits from Turkey to Syria. Turkish smugglers are also the main financiers of ISIL with their unlimited purchases of ISIL oil at $20-$30 a barrel. Even VP Biden admitted this in a speech at Harvard last week. Why does President Obama stand behind Turkey and even provide diplomatic cover? There is only one viable explanation: Turkey is the main benefactor of the Muslim Brotherhood (along with Qatar) and it is well known that POTUS Obama has strongly supported the exiled MB ever since they were thrown out of office in Egypt.

When the history books are written, I have no doubt that the Obama presidency will go down as the biggest failure in US history.  It will take decades before the USA will be trusted again. It is ironic that Obama, who stood in Cairo in 2009 and championed human rights to the entire world in the grandest of gestures, is the proud owner of Nobel peace prize dripping with blood.

POTUS Obama: Yes, you have "changed" things...for the worse.

A recent editorial in one of Israel’s largest online newspaper s, YNET, was pretty explicit in explaining the Israeli “consensus view” of recent U.S. security guarantees for Israel that Secretary of State Kerry failed to secure in his negotiated agreement with Iran - U. S. guarantees, at least under POTUS Obama, are worthless.

The Israelis weren’t always of this opinion under other U.S. administrations, but events of the past 4-5 years led to the inescapable conclusion that America’s word under President Obama’s means nothing.

1)     He abandoned Israel’s long-time ally, Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak (without consultation) in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood.

2)     In 2009, when Iranians conducted massive street protests, instead of giving them minimal verbal support, he called it an internal Iranian issue. The demonstrators were quickly squashed with the brutality you would expect from the Republican Guard. 

3)     When Syria used chemical weapons, Obama’s “red-line” disappeared and it was nothing less than embarrassing to see our diplomats jump at the bogus lifeline thrown to them by Russia’s Putin that didn’t stop the killing and didn’t stop chemical assaults.

4)     When Ukraine was invaded by Russia – the U.S. security guarantees that convinced Ukraine to abandon their nuclear capability evaporated when the first shot was fired.

How on earth could the Israelis trust the Obama administration when they have not only made Iran a regional power a country that is Israel’s mortal enemy who has been in a constant state of war with Israel. Allowing Iran to receive nuclear arms and resume arms trading without any reciprocity regarding Iran’s state sponsorship of terrorism against Israel and numerous Arab countries is traitorous to the alliance that WAS between the USA and Israel.  Thanks to Obama, the Israelis are now on a hair trigger and feeling attacked and abandoned. The Iranians and their surrogates Hamas and Hezbollah – seeing Israel without the USA as a patron are emboldened to step up their terrorism against anyone they choose. Arab countries are already planning to build reactors and nuclear weapons. War is now certain, thanks to the appeasement of the West, led by Obama to Iran.

Israel was birthed without the help of the USA government and they will survive and thrive without them for the immediate future. Other alliances will be established, and Israel will diversify its dependency on America. Maybe at the end of the day that is not such a bad outcome in the long term.

 More friendly US administrations will surely come into power, but the nuclear agreement will haunt future US government (and Israel) forever, as they now own it. More importantly, the odds of any country trusting the USA as a true ally are nil. Obama is lying in bed with Iran, and the odds are that America will wake up with fleas for decades.

Maybe the USA needs a dose of the same medicine as Greece!

Having just read the first releases on the “economic austerity plan” imposed by the EU on Greece, there was one reformation that caught my eye. The Greek government is required to raise the minimum wage rate significantly, while at the same time drastically reducing government welfare programs. The premise being that it will incentivize people to work and significantly reduce the cost of the welfare programs AND reduce dependency on the government. There will, of course, still be welfare for the most vulnerable in society, but this would mean the end of generational dependency on the Greek government.

As more details are released on this plan, I would assume that the government would offer incentives to businesses to expand with part of the savings from the reduction in welfare spending. The balance of the savings would go toward PAYING DOWN DEBT. This shift from government dependency to the private sector is a model that makes sense in my opinion, as the private sector is ALWAYS more productive with capital than government, no matter where in the world one lives. Maybe one of our Presidential candidates will go out on a limb and suggest something with economic teeth rather than vague, toothless slogans.

It’s good enough for Egypt’s borders, but not our border with Mexico?

The U.S. State Department has submitted an application for congressional approval for $100 million to fund the building and overseeing of 4,000km of mobile sensor towers and electronic fences in Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and Israel in a desperate bid to seal their borders off against the fast-moving ISIS.

The application states: “This procurement is intended for Egyptian Border Guard Forces, which currently lack any remote detection capability along unpatrolled areas of Egypt’s borders.” Libya, Sudan and Sinai are specified. The application goes on to explain: “The system would provide an early warning capability to allow for faster response times to mitigate threats to the border guards and the civilian population.”

Obviously, our government does not take America’s security as seriously as they do our allies in the Mideast. While we might not have ISIS on our back door, illegal immigration has serious negative implications in areas of national security, crime and jobs. While Donald Trump was definitively not politically correct in the manner in which he articulated the issue, wouldn’t it be better to be pro-active and seal OUR BORDERS now rather than wait till the problem has to be dealt with re-actively?