Trump: GOP rivals ‘want to start WWIII over Syria,’ should let Russia fight Islamic State
Trump: GOP rivals ‘want to start WWIII over Syria,’ should let Russia fight Islamic State
– The Washington Times – Saturday, September 26, 2015
GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump shared more of his views on foreign policy Friday, telling an audience in Oklahoma his 2016 rivals want to “start World War III over Syria” and suggesting the U.S. let Russia take up the fight against the Islamic State in the region.
“They want to start World War III over Syria. Give me a break,” Mr. Trump said at the State Fairgrounds in Oklahoma City, The Hill reported.
“You know Russia wants to get ISIS right,” Mr. Trump said, using the acronym for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. “We want to get ISIS. Russia’s in Syria. Maybe we should let them do it? Let them do it. What the hell are we, crazy?”
Mr. Trump’s remarks come as Russia is increasing its military forces in Syria, a move which has alarmed U.S. military and administration officials.
The U.S. is concerned that Russia will lend its own troops to help embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad take on the Islamic State terrorist group. While the U.S. is also leading a coalition force against the terror group, it also opposes Mr. Assad’s regime and has urged him to step down from office.
Mr. Trump’s comments on foreign policy have been heavily scrutinized and may be a stumbling block on his road to the White House.
He was widely criticized for a radio interview with Hugh Hewiit earlier this month, in which he appeared to confuse the names of top terrorist leaders and mixed up the Kurds with the Iranian Quds force — an elite military unit under the command of the Ayatollah and linked to terrorist activities in the Middle East.
Mr. Trump, an opponent of the nuclear deal with Iran, also said Friday that the U.S. had only empowered Iran by invading Iraq.
“I said don’t go into Iraq. I’m the most militant person here, the most militaristic person you’ll ever meet. I believe in the military strongly but I didn’t want to see us invade Iraq,” he said, The Hill reported.
“We spend $2 trillion, thousands of lives, wounded warriors all over the place that I love by the way… we got nothing. We can’t even go over there.”
Mr. Trump also said Iraq and Iran were in cahoots over oil in the region.
“And right now as you are standing here, Iraq is negotiating with Iran. They’re going to merge and Iran is going to get the oil… and the one that gets the rest of it is going to be ISIS.”
WarSclerotic 
September 28, 2015 at 5:35 AM
Op-Ed: Russian Arms: to Syria Today, Tomorrow to a “Demilitarized Palestine”
In the time it would take an Israeli tourist to finish an Israeli breakfast, Russia deployed close to a thousand Russian special operations soldiers to Syria. No UN resolution. No discussion. No nothing. “President” Assad, the genocidal mass-murderer of hundreds of thousands of Sunnis, merely “invited” the Russians to come, and they came.
The Russians came with mobile anti-aircraft missile batteries, various Russian special forces and nuclear submarines armed with enough nuclear bombs on the one submarine to incinerate the practically the entire world. If ever a terrorist Palestinian state is formed in the “West Bank”, any Palestinian terrorist president can, and will, just as easily invite the Russians into their new country within a day. Before Israel, or anyone will know it, Russians and their anti-aircraft missile batteries will line the Green Line. The moment that happens, start saying Kaddish for Israel.
What exactly are Israel and Netanyahu going to do the afternoon of the morning during which Russia slips a thousand Speznetz paratroops into the newly formed “West Bank Palestine”?
Far-fetched? Well, despite the accelerating proliferation of jihadi groups faster than you can say “Alluhu akbar,” and Obama’s cash infusion of 150 billion dollars into the Iran leading-state-sponsor-of-terror, Prime Minister Netanyahu is still talking about a “Palestinian State”. With European Union (EU) High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Netanyahu stressed his commitment to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Netanyahu declared: “I support the vision of two states for two peoples – a demilitarized Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state,” he declared. (Whisky tango foxtrot?-ML)
Up to now, Abbas and Israel’s Frankenstein-like creation of the Palestinian Authority have violated every diplomatic “limitation” that the Palestinians “agreed to” in the Oslo Accords, or should I say Discords. They declared a state, raised the flag at the UN, filed with the ICC, unceasingly foment terror and violence – you name it, the PA has violated it. Israel throws a “we’re stopping the money” tantrum only to transfer the money they withheld a couple of months later.
What exactly are Israel and Netanyahu going to do the afternoon of the morning during which Russia slips a thousand Speznetz paratroops into the newly formed “West Bank Palestine”, and they deploy as a fait accompli tripwire force along the Green Line and in East Jerusalem? They won’t be able to do a thing.
Why will Russia want to deploy to “Palestine”? For starters, the Russians were crazy enough to want to deploy in Syria, where they risk the hatred of the entire Sunni Arab world and the loss of their troops to the Jihadi crazies. In Palestine, they will be seen as heroes to the entire Sunni Arab world, and don’t have to fear Israel will harm a single hair on the head of a single Russian soldier. If the Russians deployed to Syria where all logic defied a deployment, they surely will deploy to “Palestine”. Secondly, this way they insure an alliance with all the Sunni Arab countries even if the Russians are still friendly with Iran. Finally, the Russians will have created the beginnings of a firewall protecting Cyprus where they will own “Palestine” and control what remains if – as they hope – Israel is destroyed.
Abbas and the “West Bank Palestine” will want them to deploy to protect Abbas and his cronies from Hamas and all the other Jihadis who would otherwise wipe Abbas out of existence the moment Israel leaves the area. Abbas will be the protected baby of the nuclear-power UN-Veto-powered Russia. Abbas will have concluded the coup of history: Israel commits virtual suicide, America pays for it and loses all strategic value of Israel its military strategic fulcrum, and Russia looks like a hero to the Muslim world.
Maybe Israelis should start checking their non-Israeli passports. For, when the Russian-protected “Palestine” starts lobbing katyusha rockets into Tel Aviv and mortars into West Jerusalem, what is Israel going to do with thousands of Russian special forces lined along the Green Line and several nuclear submarines parked in the eastern Mediterranean? It will be game over for Israel.
Netanyahu’s delusional notions of a “demilitarized Palestinian State” are a greater immediate threat to Israel’s existence than the Obama-Iranian nuke deal. Until Israel publicly rids itself of the suicidal notion of a “demilitarized Palestinian state”, the greatest dangers to Israel are its own politicians.
September 28, 2015 at 6:53 PM
Apart from this text being good just for a sci-fi movie…
you don’t have to worry.
According to someone under the nick “wingate” (a lunatic at the same level as John Hagee, who in his latest book said that the world was coming to an end last night after the fourth blood moon in just a year and a half) that writes here, Jehovah (ha, ha, ha) will protect Israel forever from any attack from foreign armies.
So according to him, you (or the Israeli government for that matter) just have to sit down, light a cigar, and enjoy the show.