‘The enemy of my enemy is my friend’

To the editor,

You see this in the absolutely ludicrous spectacle of the US and its western European sycophants — through their Saudi/Israeli allies — arming and funding “moderate Islamic radicals” (huh!?!) against Assad in Syria. With the fantastic incompetence the U.S. shows at accurate intelligence analysis (despite being granted more surveillance powers) — proven time and time again from 9/11 on — we end up supplying support for Al Qaeda and now ISIS. You’d think our government leaders would be ashamed of US material and information support showing up in the hands of our “terrorist enemies”. Nope. They don’t care — because these so-called terrorists act against our declared enemies. Then the U.S. whines when such “friends” go rogue!

Please remember that Osama Bin Laden got his start from CIA support against the Russians in Afghanistan — he was even on their payroll for a while! Fact! And guess who supplies and supports the vicious and tyrannical Ukrainian government in an attempt to have a proxy war with Russia — verifiable documentation is profuse with alternative news sources.

Furthermore, just like U.S. government was doing before 9/11 and the Boston Marathon Massacre, the French government was running anti-terrorist protection drills before its recent mini-9/11 happened. Huh? Apparently ISIS has supermen in it that can outdo, at will, any security big governments can come up with! So gross government failures always must justify commanding and funding even more failures, right?

The problem with U.S. use of this principle is the amount of lying and bribing one has to do to keep from being well known as a lying hypocrite — particularly to the American people. This is not to mention the increasing need for government suppression of American dissident voices — with the excuse that it’s “helping the terrorists”. This is why Russian effectiveness in Syria in just weeks, that far surpasses anything the U.S. (and now France) has done in months, is striking a fatal blow to government credibility with thoughtful U.S. citizens. Killing and war has not stamped out terrorism and human irrationality, yet our incompetent mad-dog leaders can think of doing nothing else. Listen. Conspiracy theories having nothing to do with facts visible to anyone — I repeat anyone — who cares to look.

Stuart Thompson

Wasilla