General Wesley Clark: ISIS Serves Interests Of US Allies Turkey And Saudi Arabia
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by Tyler Durden on 12/03/2015 23:15 -0500
Source: General Wesley Clark: ISIS Serves Interests Of US Allies Turkey And Saudi Arabia | Zero Hedge
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“Let’s be very clear: ISIS is not just a terrorist organization; it is a Sunni terrorist organization. That means it blocks and targets Shi’a. And that means it’s serving the interests of Turkey and Saudi Arabia – even as it poses a threat to them.” – Retired Gen. Wesley Clark
Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander General and retired U.S. General Wesley Clark revealed in an interview with CNN that the Islamic State (Daesh, ISIS) remains geostrategically imperative to Sunni nations, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, as they clamor for strategic power over Shi’a nations, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. He explained that “neither Turkey nor Saudi Arabia want an Iran-Iraq-Syria-Lebanon ‘bridge’ that isolates Turkey, and cuts Saudi Arabia off.”
When asked by the CNN host if Russian President Vladimir Putin’s suggestion that Turkey was “aiding ISIS” had any validity, he responded:
“All along there’s always been the idea that Turkey was supporting ISIS in some way. We know they’ve funneled people going through Turkey to ISIS. Someone’s buying that oil that ISIS is selling; it’s going through somewhere – it looks to me like it’s probably going through Turkey – but the Turks haven’t acknowledged that.”
After explaining this virtual gateway for the Islamic State’s oil, Clark was quick to emphasize that Putin’s allegations about Turkey’s support for terrorist organization, ISIS, aren’t without their own hypocrisy. Russia, of course, has been upholding President Bashar al-Assad’s administration in Syria against rebel groups backed by the U.S. — despite continuing denials by U.S. officials that that particular theater is its primary interest in the region.
He said, “Putin would like to dirty Turkey by saying it’s supporting terrorists, but the truth is that he’s supporting terrorists. I mean, the tactics used by the Assad regime have been terror tactics. They’re dropping barrel bombs on innocent civilians.”
Clark concludes the interview with a statement that encapsulates growing sentiment of many Westerners who’ve grown war-weary with such geopolitical wrangling overseas:
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WarSclerotic 
December 4, 2015 at 11:43 PM
The war going on in Syria is between Russia and the US, for control of the oil and gas pipeline routes from the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia to Europe.
Russia is allied with Shiite Hezbollah and Shiite ally Assad in Syria and with the Shiite Iranians.
And the US is allied with the Sunni Saudis and with Sunni ISIS.
ISIS are OUR GUYS !!!
Wesley Clark: “Our friends and allies funded ISIS to destroy Hezbollah”
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General Wesley Clark, former Supreme Commander of NATO, told CNN that the Islamic Emirate (“Daesh”) had been “created by our friends and allies to defeat Hezbollah.”
And the conflict in Syria is just a battle in a larger war by the US to defeat Russia. Russia is critically dependent on it’s oil and gas sales to Europe. If the US can secure oil and gas pipeline routes from the Persian Gulf THROUGH Syria to Europe then Europe won’t need Russian oil and gas and the US can bankrupt Russia and take over even more of it’s sphere of influence and natural resources.