Dare
anyone call it treason?
Editor's note: The following is the first article in the FrontPage series
"Obama's Betrayals," which will explore the president's record
of perfidy, malfeasance and crimes against the American people.
As the Obama presidency enters its final stages, examples of
this treachery are only becoming more numerous and brazen. "Obama's
Betrayals" will shine the spotlight on these attacks on the
American polity, the incredible damage they are inflicting on the nation,
and the dangerous agenda the president intends to complete before
leaving office.
It doesn’t get
any more explosive than this: a high-ranking former Obama administration
official charging that the administration made a conscious decision to support
al-Qaeda – so where is the mainstream media?
Brad Hoff
reported in Foreign Policy
Journal last Friday that “in
Al Jazeera’s latest Head to Head episode, former director of the Defense
Intelligence Agency Michael Flynn confirms to Mehdi Hasan that not only had he
studied the DIA memo predicting the West’s backing of an Islamic State in Syria
when it came across his desk in 2012, but even asserts that the White House’s
sponsoring of radical jihadists (that would emerge as ISIL and Nusra) against
the Syrian regime was ‘a willful decision.’”
When Hasan
asked Flynn if “the administration turned a blind eye” to analyses explaining
how the Syrian “rebels” against the Assad regime were actually Islamic
jihadists who wanted to establish a hardline Sharia state in Syria, Flynn
responded: “I don’t know that they turned a blind eye, I think it was a decision.
I think it was a willful decision.”
“A willful
decision to support an insurgency that had Salafists, Al Qaeda and the Muslim
Brotherhood?,” asked Hasan.
Flynn
responded: “It was a willful decision to do what they’re doing.” That is, arm
those Salafist, al-Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood elements, and do all they could
to enable them to succeed.
One has to
pause and consider the source for all this. Mehdi Hasan is a highly suspect analyst and Foreign Policy Journal appears to be a pro-jihad paleocon
publication, and Al Jazeera is certainly a pro-jihad propaganda
outlet. All that is noted, but if this transcript is accurate,
former DIA director Michael Flynn is confirming that the Obama Administration
knowingly decided to support al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, and
directly enabled the rise of the Islamic State.
And given the Obama Administration’s general stance toward the global jihad and
Islamic supremacism, what would be unbelievable about that? It has been well
known for years that Obama has energetically supported the Muslim Brotherhood –
so well known that Egyptians protesting against the corrupt and tyrannical
Muslim Brotherhood regime of Mohamed Morsi in 2013 held up signs calling on
Obama to “stop supporting terrorism.”
But al-Qaeda?
The former head of the DIA revealing that the Obama administration made a conscious
decision to aid the organization that murdered 3,000 Americans on September 11,
2001 and has been waging global warfare against the United States ever since?
That is something else again.
It would,
however, be consistent with so many odd aspects of Obama’s behavior. The
President has aroused controversy over his affinity with Islam throughout his
presidency, with his extravagant praise of the non-existent Islamic role in the
founding and growth of the American republic, his exaggeration of Muslim achievements,
his refusal to name the global jihad threat in any accurate manner, and so much
more – even small incidents such as his notorious 2008 “slip of the tongue” in
which he referred to “my Muslim faith,” right up to the one that broke in
February 2015, when a photo surfaced from the U.S.-African Leaders’ Summit in
August 2014, showing Obama passing by a group of African delegates with his
right index finger raised in a gesture strongly reminiscent of the Islamic
State’s now notorious one-finger salute.
That Islamic
State, of course, was the direct beneficiary of Obama’s Syria policies, and now
Michael Flynn has revealed that that was essentially the plan all along. So why
isn’t the honking gaggle of Republican presidential candidates saying anything about
this – demanding an investigation, asking Flynn for more information, imploring
Obama to come clean about his Syria strategy – anything at all? In a sane
political atmosphere, this would be enough to bring down the Obama presidency.
Instead, it will get little notice and no action whatsoever.
Why that is so
remains a mystery. Can it be that Flynn’s allegations are simply too hot to
handle for everyone, and that, if taken seriously, they would bring down many
more people than just Barack Obama? That seems to be the only remotely
plausible explanation. But it is a deeply disquieting one.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the
Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His next book, The Complete Infidel’s Guide to ISIS, is coming August 24. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
