After Backing Jihad and Open Borders, French Gov’t Feigns Shock

• After Backing Jihad and Open Borders, French Gov’t Feigns Shock
  by Alex Newman, http://www.thenewamerican.com/  
  First, Socialist French politicians loudly backed brutal jihadists in Syria to overthrow the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad. Then they supported open borders so those same jihadists and their victims could flood into Europe, where thelaw-abiding populace has been largely disarmed and left defenseless by those same politicians. Now, the French government and Western politicians are feigning shock over the tragic but entirely predictable terrorist attack that claimed more than 120 lives in Paris. And if the same sort of policies continue, which appears likely at this point, analysts say more attacks in the future are all but inevitable.   
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  Among those pointing to French government support for jihad in Syria as being at least partly responsible for the “blowback” was former congressman and three-time presidential contender Ron Paul. “Because the U.S. and its allies are essentially on the same side as ISIS and other groups — seeking the overthrow of Assad — many of the weapons they have sent to the more ‘moderate’ factions also seeking Assad’s ouster have ended up in the hands of radicals,” explained Paul, who for decades has been a leading advocate of a non-interventionist foreign policy. “Moderate groups have joined more radical factions over and over, taking their US-provided training and weapons with them.”
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  Indeed, as top U.S. officials and declassified intelligence documents have revealed, the reality is even worse than what Paul describes in his diplomatically worded critique. Consider, for example, the fact that Obama’s so-called “anti-ISIS” coalition — the governments and dictatorships ruling France, the United Kingdom, Turkey, and various Sunni Arab kingdoms — was largely responsible for creating, arming, funding, and training the Islamic State. “There was no moderate middle” in Syria, Vice President Joe Biden explained in a speech, contradicting Obama and his claim to be arming “moderate” rebels. Biden also noted that Obama’s Islamic allies were determined to take down Assad and have a “proxy war.”
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  “They [Obama’s allies] poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens, thousands of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad; except that the people who were being supplied were Al Nusra and Al Qaeda and the extremist elements of jihadis coming from other parts of the world,” Biden continued, without pointing to the administration’s well-documented role in it all. “All of a sudden everybody’s awakened because this outfit called ISIL, which was Al Qaeda in Iraq, which when they were essentially thrown out of Iraq, found open space in territory in eastern Syria, work with Al Nusra who we declared a terrorist group early on, and we could not convince our colleagues to stop supplying them.”
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  Other top U.S. officials have echoed those remarks. Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey admitted in Senate testimony that he knew of Arab allies in Obama’s anti-ISIS coalition that were funding ISIS. The terror group claimed responsibility for the attack, in which a handful of jihadists killed or injured more than 500 disarmed and helpless victims across Paris. Other senior military officials have also admitted that the Obama administration backed jihadists despite warnings about the inevitable consequences that would follow. Some former U.S. generals have even concluded that Obama “switched sides” in the terror war.   
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  And a declassified 2012 report from the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency revealed that Western powers and their Islamic allies have known all along that al-Qaeda was leading the Syrian uprising, but were supporting the jihad anyway. “There is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist [fundamentalist Islam] principality in Eastern Syria (Hasaka and Der Zor), and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime,” the same document explains. They got their wish, of course, when the Islamic State officially announced the establishment of its “caliphate” in Eastern Syria and parts of Iraq.        
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  “Does anyone not believe this is a recipe for the kind of disaster we have now seen in Paris?” asked Paul in his column, published by the liberty-oriented Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. “The French in particular have been very active in arming even the more radical groups in Syria, as they push for more political influence in the region. Why do they still refuse to believe in the concept of blowback? Is it because the explanation that, ‘they hate us because we are free,’ makes it easier to escalate abroad and crack down at home?”
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