Saudi support for extremism: "Joe Biden Is the Only Honest Man in Washington"

[uhnope]

A good read
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/10/06/joe_biden_is_the_only_honest_man_in_washington

Vice President Joe Biden has had to apologize, twice, to two key U.S. allies in the fight against the Islamic State. It wasn't because he lobbed false accusations at them. It was because he accidentally told some inconvenient truths.

Speaking at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at Harvard University late last week, Biden departed from his prepared remarks to deliver a series of broadsides against Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), three powerful members of the emerging U.S.-led coalition battling the Islamic State in both Iraq and Syria. Saudi Arabia and the UAE took part in the initial U.S. airstrikes against the group, and Riyadh has offered to host a training facility for thousands of moderate Syrian rebels. The Turkish parliament recently voted to authorize military strikes into both Syria and Iraq.

But those weren't the parts of the three countries' records that Biden focused on. Turkey, the U.S. vice president said, had failed to close its long border with Syria, allowing militants with loyalties to the Islamic State to easily cross the frontier and join the fight there. He said that Saudi Arabia and the UAE, meanwhile, had transferred hundreds of millions of dollars and large amounts of weaponry to a variety of Islamist militias inside Syria, including at least one with ties to al Qaeda.

The leaders of the three countries were apoplectic, but there are elements of truth in everything Biden said, particularly when it comes to Turkey, which would be a pivotal player in any serious effort to defeat the Islamic State.

[Skeowes28]

1. Your right

I can see Obama sending another 3 to 5 thousand troops to Iraq over the next year as a stabilization force

[MontyPow]

3. Stabilizing force.

[grahamhgreen]

2. No need to apologize Joe.

[MontyPow]

4. A breath of fresh air

[Cha]

5. VP Joe Biden is honest and so is his team mate, President Barack Obama. Thanks for the article,

upnope.

[freshwest]

7. Yes, but title leaves out Kerry and Obama who have been working on this.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/110225256#post17

I've also posted a good deal on how busy Kerry has been in the efforts to cut off the flow of money to ISIS from the nations with wealthy people who contributed to them. It's hard, their banking system is different than ours. And it is their money to do with as they please.

[Cha]

8. Kerry works so diligently and brilliantly behind the scenes.. thank you for bringing him into

light, fresh.

[JDPriestly]

6. Biden is more honest than most of our politicians.

Thanks to him for verifying what many of us have suspected. Who do Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE think they are fooling?