Calling on foreign powers to not interfere with Saudi Arabia’s internal affairs, King Salaman showed off his prodigious propaganda skills, knowing full well, it’s the other way around. Contrary to Salman’s view, Saudi Arabia has funded the proxy war in Syria costing 250,000 lives, displacing 3 million more into neighboring countries and Europe. Causing the worst refugee crisis since WWII, King Salman points fingers at Iran with the backing of the U.S. and European Union. Western powers haven’t questioned the Saudi disinformation that the Syria war was an internal revolt by Syrians long controlled by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s Shiite regime. Calling Syria’s crisis a “civil war,” King Salman bamboozles the U.S. and EU, pretending Riyadh doesn’t have a dog in the fight. When Salman’s handpicked Syria rebel leader Zahran Alloush was killed Dec. 25, 2015, Saudi Arabia revealed the truth.
Telling the world that the Syrian civil war was a product of the 2011 Arab Spring kept the charade going until a Russian air strikes killed the 43-year-old Saudi-backed rebel leader. “It is our right to defend ourselves, without interfering in the affairs of others. We call on others to not interfere with our affairs,” said Salman, turning the Saudi-funded proxy war on its head. Saudi Arabia has been the leading sponsor of state-sponsored terrorism, made known on Sept. 11. Why 69-year-old Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton points fingers for the dubious honor at Iran raises disturbing questions of how foreign powers influence U.S. politicians. How Hillary—and President Barack Obama—ignores the Saudi’s role in Syria’s war can only be explained by a vested interest. Clinton’s Global Initiative and the Arkansas-based Presidential Library have received copious Saudi cash.
Speaking at a CNN town hall meeting Feb.3 to moderator Anderson Cooper, Hillary couldn’t explain receiving $675,000 for three short speeches at Goldman Sachs. When asked why she would accept such astronomical sums, Hillary replied, “That’s what they offered.” Hillary gets incensed when 74-year-old Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders suggests she’s under Wall Street’s influence for accepting some $15 million from Wall Street into her Super PAC. Hillary buys hook-line-and-sinker King Salman’s nonsense about Saud Arabia staying clear of Mideast interference. Calling Iran the “chief sponsor of international terrorism,” Hillary joins 83-year-old former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld—a key architect of the disastrous Iraq War—labeling Iran “the world’s chief sponsor of state terrorism,” proving she has more in common with Rumsfeld than meets the eye.
Salman likes to point fingers at Iran to divert attention away from the Saudi’s Wahhabi regime, spreading radical Islamic law around the planet. Saudi’s Sunni clients would like nothing more than to topple the Shiite regime of Bashar al-Assad. When Russian President Vladimir Putin joined the war against Saudi-backed rebel groups trying to topple als-Assad, the war began shifting back to Damascus. Yesterday’s advances in Western Syria along the Turkish border, closing in on Aleppo, proved that Syria’s victory over the Saudi-backed proxy war is within reach. For five years, the White House and EU have rubber-stamped the Saudi-proxy war in Syria, finally losing its grip since Putin launched air strikes Sept. 30. Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have embarrassed U.S. foreign policy backing the Saudi proxy war at the expense of driving U.S. Russian relations to post-Cold War lows. Now that al-Assad looks poised to win the war, the White House scrambles.
Backing the Saudi proxy war in Syria has disgraced the U.S. foreign policy establishment. Praising the Saudi regime for offering to send troops to Syria, Iran reacted harshly, doubing whether Riyadh would actually send troops. “We welcome the announcement by Saudi Arabia that they are looking into ways to enhance their counter-ISIL [AKA ISIS] efforts,” said U.S. Centcom Commad spokesman Pat Ryder.” Accepting Saudi troops slaps Tehran in the face, wrecking two years of Kerry’s hard diplomacy with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif. Hillary’s hostile comments toward Iran at last week’s CNN town hall don’t help U.S. global relations. Watching the Saudi and White House Syrian policy collapse hands Russian President Vladimir Putin a foreign policy victory. Putin recognized the Saudi’s destructive proxy war in Syria and did something about it.
Listening to Saudi’s King Salman rip other Western and Mideat powers for meddling in Saudi affairs is a classic case of the pot-calling-the-kettle-black. No one meddles in the Mideast more than Saudi Arabia. Forgetting the lessons of Sept. 11, Obama can’t see through Saudi Arabia’s cheap petrodollars to recognize the damage Saudi Arabia has done in the Middle East. Promoting its radical Wahhabi form of Islam, the Saudi’s show no respect for Shiites, not hesitating to topple any Shiite regime when possible. “There will be continued discussions with the Saudis and our other partners on the best ways we can continue to intensify coalition efforts,” said Defense Secretary Ash Carter. Calling Putin a U.S. adversary, Carter does U.S. foreign policy no good, buying the Saudi propaganda in Syria lock-stock-and-barrel at the expense of U.S.-Russian relations.
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