US VP Biden: We Couldn't Convince Our Mideast Allies to Stop Supporting Extremists in Syria

[jakeXT]

America’s “biggest problem” in Syria is its regional allies, Biden told students at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University on Thursday.

“Our allies in the region were our largest problem in Syria,” he said, explaining that Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the UAE were “so determined to take down Assad,” that in a sense they started a “proxy Sunni-Shia war” by pouring “hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of tons of weapons” towards anyone who would fight against Assad.

“And we could not convince our colleagues to stop supplying them,” said Biden, thus disassociating the US from unleashing the civil war in Syria.

“The outcome of such a policy now is more visible,” he said, as it turned out they supplied extremists from Al-Nusra Front and Al-Qaeda.

http://rt.com/news/192880-biden-isis-us-allies/

[MannyGoldstein]

1. And now *we* have to save our allies from

their own actions.

#%^*.

[CJCRANE]

4. We asked Dr Frankenstein to help us

fight the monster.

[valerief]

2. Well, with friends like that...

[Historic NY]

3. Its not just Syria, Joe, its the entire culture of the Middle East.

Saudies buy off the zealots, Qatar does, they think it will control unrest. Its seems like everybody is paying off somebody.

[jamzrockz]

5. And those same arsonists

are being called to put out the fire and wait for it, they refuse to coordinate with the home owner whose house they set on fire. Friends of Syria my ass.

[ChazInAz]

6. Allies?

In a civil world, we would just walk away from this bar room brawl, close our embassies, embargo their oil, and let them cut each other's throats.

[KurtNYC]

7. now if we could convince our allies to stop supporting extremists here...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/16/1330029/-Saudis-Lobbied-John-McCain-Lindsey-Graham-to-sell-War#

It has taken a while but the odd truth of this thing is starting to show through. Did McCain cut his own deal with the Saudis on ISIS? McCain said 9/15/14:

MCCAIN: Has Rand Paul -- has Rand Paul ever been to Syria? Has he ever met with ISIS? Has he ever met with...

HANNITY: I'm not trying to cause a fight, Senator.

(CROSSTALK)

MCCAIN: ... any of these people? No, no, no. I -- we're going to have a fight because it's patently false. This is the same Rand Paul that said we didn't want to have anything to do with anything to do in the Middle East, by the way. I don't want to get in a fight with him at all.

HANNITY: Yes.

MCCAIN: But it's not true. I know these people. I'm in contact with them all the time...

HANNITY: All right, then let me ask you this...

MCCAIN: ... and he is not. And he is not. And he is not.

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/hannity/transcript/2014/09/16/mccain-lack-mideast-help-result-american-indecision

[jakeXT]

8. I love his Freudian slips n/t

[CullenBohannon]

9. true

We're basically allied with islamists while fighting other ones.