Clare Lopez, a highly trained government official who spent 20 years as a CIA operative, states that Obama’s plan for the Middle East is the same as what Osama bin Laden’s was: removing U.S. troops and putting the jihadis in power.
“The administration’s plan, I believe, is to remove American power and influence, including military forces, from Islamic lands,” Lopez asserted.
When WND remarked that was just what Osama bin Laden had demanded, Lopez pointed out that is the aim of all jihadis, “Because that is what Islam demands, that foreign forces be kicked out of Islamic lands.”
Does Obama think if we leave the Mideast the jihadis will then leave us alone?
“I don’t know,” she said. “I can just see the pattern that is enabling the rise of Islam, empowering the Muslim Brotherhood domestically and abroad, alienating and distancing ourselves from our friends and allies and debilitating the American military.”
WND spoke with Lopez about the current crisis in Iraq, in which the Islamic terrorist army ISIS has blitzed across the country, capturing large chunks of territory while slaughtering Christians and other Muslims and threatening genocide. In a wide-ranging interview, the foreign policy expert also assessed the current state of the Mideast.Even if she doesn’t have inside information, the former operative said, “I can see what he is doing; it seems to be a clear agenda. It is clear that is what he is doing.”
She believes Obama’s hesitance in the face of the horrific violence in the current crisis comes from a basic mistake, not recognizing the true motivation of the jihadis is an ideology of relentless conquest.
But she isn’t advocating a return to the Iraq War. Lopez believes the U.S. should protect its interests and those minorities facing genocide, but otherwise, let the warring parties sort it out, for the time being.
Lopez believes regimes such as Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey play all sides of the jihadi game and have “enabled a monster in ISIS” they can no longer control, and “they should be allowed to reap what they’ve sown.” Furthermore, she maintained, U.S. leadership has proven incapable of sorting out who’s who or who’s backing whom.
Besides, she observed, there isn’t much else left for the U.S. to protect in Iraq.
When WND asked her if Iraq is lost, she had a startling but succinct reaction: “Iraq doesn’t exist anymore. I liken it to Humpy-Dumpty. It’s fallen off the wall, and all the king’s horses and all the king’s men cannot put it back together again.”
Given that bleak assessment, the former CIA operative described what she believes the U.S. must now do to preserve its core interests in Iraq, Syria and the Persian Gulf region:
- Protect American personnel and facilities at the Embassy in Baghdad and the Irbil and Basra consulates with either airstrikes or evacuation.
- Provide as much humanitarian aid as possible to beleaguered minorities facing genocide, as well as to friendly countries like Jordan that are burdened with overwhelming economic demands to care for millions of refugees.
- Stand by allies and partners in the region, especially Israel and Jordan.
- Help the Kurds survive by providing diplomatic support, intelligence, logistics and modern weapons.
- Deploy a Special Forces capability to the region to gather intelligence and provide early warning of threats to U.S. interests, and provide the ability to project power and influence as required.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently criticized Obama for not arming what she called moderate rebels in Syria when the civil war there began, which, she claimed, could have prevented the rise of ISIS.
“No, I don’t think it was possible to find a truly credible, capable, pro-Western force in Syria,” she said. “Yes, there were those who were not jihadi. Early in the conflict in Syria, in 2011, there were (acceptable) groups. There were military defectors from Assad’s regime who could have been classified as genuinely secular. Pro-Western? Not so sure. Genuinely pro-democracy? Not so sure.”WND asked Lopez if it really would have been possible to form a credible, non-Islamist, fighting force.
(Lopez also explained she doesn’t use the term Islamists, “because I can’t figure out a difference between Islam and Islamism. It’s either Islam or it’s not Islam. They are either Muslim or have declared themselves not to be Muslims, in which case, they’re apostates.”)
When WND asked whether the U.S. should have armed those groups, the former CIA operative said she was not sure that would have been effective, simply because their numbers were never going to be credible and significant enough in size and capability to overthrow Assad.
Did Obama really have bad intelligence on ISIS, as he had claimed?
Lopez said it was hard to know, but he was “certainly getting bad intel” in general.
“The CIA has proved it is completely incapable of operating in this environment,” she said. “But I’m not on the inside, and can’t be sure what they are telling him. What we do know is what we see.”
As an example, she described how U.S. special forces were sent to Jordan to train people who turned out to be jihadis, even though it was reported they “vetted everybody.”
“They vetted them and asked, ‘Did you ever belong to al-Qaida?’ and they said ‘Oh, no – not me!’ But did they ever ask them what their ideology was? They’re not allowed to. We’re not allowed to define our enemy so how can we even identify our enemy? So, we fall into things like this where we actually train future ISIS jihadis, according to the Jordanian security officials.”
Lopez lauded the reporting of WND’s Aaron Klein in exposing the U.S training of what would become ISIS troops, saying, “Aaron is super. I did a radio interview with him in Tel Aviv. He is a very good reporter, very careful.”
Regardless of the quality of our intelligence, somehow, she said, we still ended up training the bad guys.
“We gave them tactics, intelligence and arms,” she noted.
The analyst described a U.S. leadership that simply no longer recognizes the threat posed by the jihadist agenda, whether from ISIS or Iran, to U.S. regional interests, to friends and allies and, eventually, to the homeland itself.Although it is often said the devil is in the details, in this instance, Lopez said the problem is really the administration’s myopic view of the big picture.
“This sort of understanding demands a sharp reversal of existing policy that refuses even to acknowledge the Islamic ideology that animates this enemy’s threat doctrine. Only once that basic professional responsibility is met can an overall strategic policy that makes any sense be formulated and implemented.”
Lopez spoke of three keys to understanding the big picture and what is wrong with U.S. foreign policy.
- One was the aforementioned failure by the administration to appreciate that the jihadis are motivated by ideology, not political grievances.
- Another was the fact Obama appears bent upon empowering rather than confronting Iran.
- And, last but not least, she asserts the jihadist organization the Muslim Brotherhood has deeply infiltrated the Obama administration and other branches of the federal government.
‘Obama wants to empower Iran’
Lopez doesn’t just think Obama wants to withdraw entirely from the Mideast.
She believes he wants to turn most of it over to Iran.
“I am convinced that this administration intends Iran to become the nuclear power hegemon of the entire Persian Gulf region – and that includes especially the oil-rich areas. This includes the east coast of Saudi Arabia as well as southern Iraq and Iran itself.”
Lopez said the key to understand the president’s behavior is in a book written by a fellow former-CIA operative, “The Devil We Know,” by Robert Baer.
“I now believe this book is the blueprint for the Obama administration’s Middle East plan,” she explained.
why is the rest of America putting up with his treason??
Rather obvious from his actions. Appears he also intends to hand over America too.
No kidding !
..MOHAMMEDIAN, the ORIGINAL ISLAM AS WRITTEN IN QURAN AND PRACTICED BY ALL MUSLIMS WHO FOLLOW MUHAMMAD AND ALLAH. …..MODERN WESTERN INVENTED WORD FOR TRUE ORIGINAL ISLAM FROM QURAN AND PRACTICED BY ISIS AND TRUE MUSLIMS IS RADICALIZATION. NON-RADICAL MUSLIMS ARE FAKED/APOSTATES/ MODERATES AND THAT IS WHY THEY ARE KILLED BY REAL MUSLIMS LIKE ISIS OR GIVEN 3 DAYS TO BECOME REAL MUSLIMS OR DIE! THESE ARE THE UNBEATABLE FACTS AND WHAT WESTERN DHIMMI LEADERS LIE TO PEOPLE IS SCANDALOUS…LETS GET BE SAFE AND GET BUSY …… Here are some simple strategies in making sure our communities are safe from Islamic attack.
1) Know where all the mosques are in your area.
2) Publish and inform others about their locations and addresses.
3) Never go alone to a mosque
4) Go in groups of two or more to meet the imams
5) Tell them you’re concerned for their safety because you’ve heard that there are ISIS radicals infiltrating the country.
6) Take a tour of the mosque.
This will let them know in a very unassuming way that there are watchdogs and if they plan on harboring any terrorists, they just might think twice. PLEASE ….WAKE UP .
I AGREE!! IMPEACH AND STOP OBAMA NOW!! WAKE UP AMERICA!! OPEN YOUR EYES AND SAVE AMERICA!! IMPEACH AND STOP OBAMA NOW!!!!
I have always felt he was plot from our biggest enemy…It makes perfect since..That would be the only way to destroy United States is being on the inside of the White House in one the highest position, the president….There are to many actions this president has taken that just doesn’t make since, but if Obama is the biggest enemy, it makes perfect since what he is doing..If the Republicans don’t get control of the senate in November to take a lot of his power away..I don’t know what will happen… Prayers for our nation !
Two words: Dinesh D’Souza.
And that goes for Africa too. > Boko Haram, Nigeria, Cameroon… / North Africa, Al Bashir, Sudan.., the whole world.
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Globalfirm is the religion of peace!
Protecting the law: human rights, ecology & animal rights today.
Are you an unawaked Islamic slave?
Islam depends on brainwashed slaves to survive.
Prohibit Islamic brainwash!
Prohibit all Islamic Brainwash (propaganda, books, places, symbols, halal, laws).
Brainwashed people portray Islam in good light to brainwash warriors.
Brainwashed people portray Islam in good light to brainwash slave-warriors who fight physically or to control in community, media, government, schools, law…
Muhammad-idealization is always wrong, no matter if it’s your president, local Muslims, Pope or Dalai Lama.
Remember Ignaz Semmelweiss who was beaten to death after being locked up in a psychiatric hospital for correctly discovering that deaths of newborns, the child bed fever, can be eradicated by washing hands, in Vienna. Later from Austria came Hitler who idealized Muhammad & collaborated with Muslims to murder Freethinkers & Jews. Now Muslim nurses don’t want to wash hands before procedures citing Muhammad’s Sharia instructions.
Saying genital mutilation is wrong can get you crucified under Sharia/ in Sharia regions.
If you want honest certified non-national, non-racist, pro black human rights activism support Globalfirm governing.
Zudhi Jasser pathetically wants to treat dead Muhammad.
We know how important it is to protect ourselves from Ebola, but do we also know how important it is to protect ourselves from Sharia & Jihad in the long run?
Crucifixions for “apostasy” happening for example in Saudi Arabia or often now in Syria by Isis is part of Muhammad’s Sharia & Jihad, yet just as Isis crucifies a 17 year old CNN has the audacity to let a Muslim spread the lie that all the cruelty attributed to Sharia is a misconception & Sharia some super cool financing non-Muslims use too.
Condemning violent Islam starts with condemning Muhammad.
“Islam is a religion of peace.” George W. Bush
They do anything to convince the world of their lies.
The as Barack Hussein Obama would say holy prophet of Islam said that an all creating deity colored Africans black so their descendants would be slaves to the Arabs & Turks. Hence maybe the phrase colored.
Is it responsible to pass to the next generations such a book? No!
They say they’re for animal rights but condone gruesome, ritualistic Halal slaughter.
They say they’re for human rights but romanticize Muhammad, Jihad, Sharia, Boko Haram, Hamas, Isis, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan & Al Qaeda.
Now Muslims want the non-Muslim countries for themselves so they do everything to stop more immigration.
Freedom of religion: the audacity of people to act like Sharia & Jihad would be their own invention.
Pro-Islamists mistake Muhammadism for something personal.
The solution is banning religious freedom, we can’t afford to have more children radicalized into believing Jews would be the descendants of apes & pigs, Africans black because an only single deity marked them so their descendants would be slaves to the Arabs & Turks & that crucifixions, torture, genital mutilation & mass murder would be the only holy way.
What is a threat to human rights? Sharia & Jihad or (honest) human rights activism, organizing for human rights?
Sharia & Jihad is a threat to human rights & not (honest) human rights activism, organizing for human rights.
To eradicate Islam (Jihad, Dawa & Sharia) & Ebola we need secure free, uninfected areas, from which we can operate & in which we can cultivate (free, ecological best-quality) basics, ethics (human rights, ecology & no gruesome halal-slaughter), sanitation, hygiene & so on & a free base for creatives.
Unsecure zones, infected zones, Sharia & Jihad zones need to be treated cautiously until no more threat to human rights exists, to secure human rights & to secure human rights globally.
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Is it responsible to give a book to children, youth, that claims a single, only deity made Africans black so their descendants would be slaves to the Arabs & Turks? Of course no. # Ban Islam.
They want respect, undeserved power, they want people to obey.
They want to show us how Sharia is, they are psychopaths.
The main widespread misconception about Islam, translated obedience or obey, is that people understand Muhammad as organic extension of the concept of theism, as holy prophet of an only deity. The consequence & effect is that Muhammad’s sadist instructions for a holy life are idealized & romanticized & put into the category of religious freedom.
Islam means submission or simply obey. Obedience to the cult-leader Muhammad, who instructed to crucify, kill people leaving the Islam-cult. It’s irresponsible to pass forward to children, youth, anyone, the next generations Muhammad’s instructions, the Koran & Sunnah.
There are no Muslims who denounce violent Islam because the first step to denounce violent Islam is to denounce Muhammad.
If you don’t want the world to become a world caliphate & you understand the dynamics of mass-psychology you understand that religious freedom (& democracy, national sovereignty & capitalism) is the # 1 enemy.
The abducted Chibok girls might be in North Cameroon, they speak the same language as North Nigerian Muslims. But they might as well be in Nigeria, North-Africa, Sudan, Chad, who knows.
The as Obama would say “noble” Islamic books say an all creating God made Africans black so they would be slaves to the Arabs & Turks. (Google Racism WikiIslam)
Campaigners for coexistence with Muslims are Sharia & Jihad’s buffer zone.
The islamic games: People have no right to object, only Muslims & Muslims murder people in Jihad & Sharia.
Muhammadism has mythologies & aspects that are racist against Africans. (Google racism Wikiislam)
Ethics: human rights, ecology & animal rights (non Halal animal slaughter) must rule.
Religious freedom is like capitalism, democracy & national sovereignty: against ethics. Ethics get undermined by these concepts. Ethics are defined by human rights, ecology & animal rights (for example non Halal-type animal slaughter).
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China’s government might be apparently the most effective country against religious freedom, against Islam.
Globalfirm: basics-cultivation, support for creativity. Human rights & ecology. Join.
Let’s make Gaza an areligious zone. No more Muhammad-idealization.
The U.S., EU, UN according to what I know just gave a lot of money to rebuild the Gaza-strip. That’s Jizya-tax in my eyes. Or it’s Jihad & basically like saying: “Here, can you please build an Islamic state, run by the Koran & Sunnah, a theocratic Sharia-tyranny next to Israel? We give you all our money. Just don’t tell anyone.”
Pro-Islamism proves how people are retarded without no sense of ethical conscience.
If you wanna live free for good you need a system that includes basics cultivation globally.
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Muslim torturers & killers are basically like “If Muhammad did it I can do it too.”
Don’t pray it can make you become a Muslim!
Is it responsible to give a book to youth that calls Jews descendants of apes & pigs? No. # Ban Islam.
Is it responsible to give a book to youth that instructs to behead, torture, crucify people that don’t want to follow the commandments laid down in that book? Of course no. # Ban Islam.
Islam is a buffer zone for Jihad & Sharia, they fall under the only accepted religious freedom. # Ban religious freedom & Islam.
Driving oil-powered vehicles is an organized crime supporting Jihad & Sharia, Boko Haram, Isis, tyrannies as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq…
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No Damn Democrats. Barack Obama is a bigger problem in the world than the ISIS, the Japan Nuclear Melt Down, Global Warming, or Ebola.
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