Faced with the collapse of Saudi-U.S.-funded Syrian opposition in East Aleppo, U.S. President Barack Obama can only look back and ask himself how many deaths he caused in Syria. Instead of confronting the Saudi’s Arab Spring proxy war against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad started March 15, 2011, Obama took orders from Sen. John McCain (R-Az.) and other Neocons on Capitol Hill, giving arms-and-cash to rebel groups seeking to topple al-Assad. Obama likes to blame al-Assad for defending his sovereignty but the real cause of over 300,000 civilian deaths, 12 million displaced persons and immigration crisis threatening to destroy the European Union was Obama’s failed policy. Al-Assad didn’t mass murder 300,000 Syrians caught in the crossfire of the Saudi-U.S.-backed proxy war against al-Assad. Only when Russian President Vladimir Putin stepped in did the war change.
When Putin decided to defend Syria with air strikes Sept. 30, 2015, the war started to turn in al-Assad’s favor. But for nearly six years, the Saudi-U.S. proxy war created the worst humanitarian crisis since WWII. Refugees fleeing the Syrian battlefield flooded neighboring countries and the EU, driving the U.K. out of the EU June 23 with the so-called Brexit vote. Obama and his partners at the EU take no responsibility for funding-and-arming terrorists to topple a U.N. member state. Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir has been transparent admitting that the war won’t end until al-Assad leaves Damascus. Now what’s left of Saudi-U.S.-backed rebels in East Aleppo are close to extinction. Obama with his Secretary of State John Kerry walked a tightrope and fell off, playing games with Russia while secretly supporting the Saudi-funded proxy war against al-Assad.
Convening U.N.-sponsored Geneva-peace talks led by Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura have been a complete farce. Controlled by the Saudi High Negotiation Commission, the peace efforts refused to call out the Saudis for sponsoring the war. No matter what the dire consequences in the Mideast and Europe, Saudi Arabia insisted the war must go on until al-Assad leaves Damascus. Obama rubber-stamped the Saudi proxy war because he expects to get millions from the Saudis when he leaves office to help fund his ambitious $2 billion presidential library. Former Democratic nominee Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton also backed the Saudi-U.S. proxy war because she and her husband former President Bill Clinton have taken millions from the Saudis and Gulf States into the Clinton Foundation. Hundreds-of-thousands dead, millions more displaced because of corrupt politicians.
If Obama had any integrity after leaving office Jan. 20, 2017, he’d refuse Saudi-and-Gulf-State blood money to fund his presidential library. White House officials have consistently blamed al-Assad for the humanitarian disaster in Syria, when the U.S. and Saudi Arabia partnered with terrorist groups to topple his Shiite government. Nearing the collapse of Saudi-US.-rebel forces in East Aleppo, the White House still blames al-Assad for defending his sovereignty. “The Russians want to complete the operation before Trump takes power,” said an unnamed Syrian official, concerned about a change in U.S. policy when Trump takes over. Trump has said consistently that, unlike Obama and Hillary, he does not back any Syrian rebel forces seeking topple al-Assad. Trump campaigned on resetting U.S.-Russian relations. Trump faces opposition from McCain and other war hawks on Capitol Hill.
Saudi-U.S.-rebel forces in East Aleppo have held out for more cash-and-arms to complete the mission of toppling al-Assad. “Trying to exploit the current circumstances, unfortunately, and the Western states can’t do anything,” said an unnamed rebel official. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and the U.S. have thrown money down a rat hole backing various terrorists groups with competing interests, including fighting each other over the last six years. Money-and-arms have dried up because the West realizes that al-Assad with Russian and Iranian help is winning the war. “More than ever before, we need to urgently put into place means to end the hostilities and allow humanitarian aid to get through unhindered,” said French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault. Ayrault wants the West to end support for the six-year-old Saudi-U.S.-Turkey-backed proxy war that destabilized the Middle East.
Obama owes the country—and world—and explanation why the U.S. backed the Saudi-funded Arab Spring, supplying cash-and-arms to terror groups to topple the Syrian government. Obama has given no explanation why the U.S. went along with Sunni Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States seeking to topple Damascus and set up a Wahhabi state in its place. With over 300,000 dead and the worst refugee crisis since WWII, Obama has a lot of explaining to do. At the very least, Barack needs to repudiate any Saudi and Gulf State support for his presidential library or face the same scrutiny as Hillary. Taking millions from the Saudis and the Gulf States into the Clinton Foundation opened a can-of-worms, especially about Hillary’s foreign policy while Secretary of State. Obama must face a failed Syria policy that drove U.S.-Russian relations to the lowest point since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
