While the Trump administration has offered a warm welcome to former al Qaeda combatant Ahmed Al-shara as he made his appearance at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. In fact, he is the first Syrian leader, and he is in fact the new Syrian leader [00:00:17] after the toppling of Bashar al Assad, the former dictator of Syria. He's the new leader of Syria. And as a result, he's going to speak and address the UN General Assembly, and he's the first Syrian leader to do so in 58 years. Now, it is wild to see our Secretary of State so friendly with him. [00:00:38] Let's take a look at this tweet, which says that Marco Rubio, the junior member of Miami's terrorist mafia. You know, it goes on and on and kind of talks about how it's insane that, he's essentially so warm to the honorable leader of al Qaeda, [00:00:55] whose army of terrorists decapitating thugs devastated Syria on behalf of the US imperialism and genocidal Zionism. This was translated from Spanish to English, which is why it sounds or is read so weird. But as hyperbolic as that sounds, I think the point does remain [00:01:14] that we're talking about literally a former al Qaeda leader, Ahmed Al-shara, who's now the president of Syria. And considering the fact that al Qaeda carried out nine over 11, the largest terror attack on US soil. [00:01:29] It just feels weird to see our government be so warm and welcoming toward him now, years after nine over 11 happened. I don't think most Americans know this, but the Obama administration indirectly funneled weapons to al Qaeda in Syria. [00:01:46] Now, I say indirectly, because the weapons were supposed to go to vetted rebel groups in an effort to help topple Bashar al Assad, something that I don't think the United States government should ever be involved in. We shouldn't be involved in regime change wars, either through proxies or through [00:02:03] arming rebel groups, because those weapons might end up in the wrong hands. So let me give you the details. So the Obama administration took advantage of the civil unrest that was playing out in Syria to topple Bashar al Assad. So from 2013 to 2017, the CIA ran a covert program [00:02:22] that was referred to as Timber Sycamore. And the whole plan of this covert operation was to arm, fund and train anti-government rebels in Syria. Separately, the Pentagon also launched its own program, and this happened in 2014 [00:02:38] to essentially train rebels to, you know, specifically fight ISIS. But as we all know, in other instances, the weapons tend to end up in the wrong hands, or at least that's what they're telling us. So from the beginning, the U.S. Was worried that these weapons would end up in the wrong hands, [00:02:55] in the hands of al Qaeda terrorists, due to the chaotic nature of the civil unrest and the civil war that was playing out in Syria, which of course was also a proxy war that had other foreign nations involved. And so there were literally dozens of armed groups fighting, [00:03:13] fighting each other. And that included al Qaeda and al qaida affiliate known as al-Nusra, that was launched in Syria by al-Qaida and ISIS. They were gaining influence. And Al-shara is one of is the one that basically launched al-Nusra in Syria. [00:03:31] After spending time in prison for his role in the Iraq war fighting with al Qaeda. He was imprisoned in 2005 through 2011, and according to The New York Times in late 2011, Al-shara and a few comrades sneaked into Syria to inject a new jihadist group [00:03:49] into the accelerating civil war. Before he left Iraq, he turned to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, whom he knew from prison and who had become the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, the Iraqi. The Iraqi gave him about $50,000 to expand al Qaeda into Syria. [00:04:08] Al Jazeera has said he's the one who has said that on record. Okay. And his new group, the Nusra Front, made its presence known in early 2012 by dispatching suicide bombers to attack security personnel in Syria's largest cities, killing hundreds of people. [00:04:23] So that is the current new leader of Syria, who received a warm welcome from our secretary of state, Marco Rubio, at the UN General Assembly. Isn't that great in New York, by the way? The US government claims that they never directly armed al Qaeda in Syria, [00:04:39] and that the vetting process to which rebel the the vetting process to determine which rebels they should arm turned out to be unreliable. Jake turned out to be unreliable. Okay. So this guy is now engaging in, like, a rebranding campaign? [00:04:55] Yep. I don't give I'm not allowed to curse. I don't care about his rebranding campaign. What we did, our role in what happened in Syria was wrong because a former al Qaeda guy is now the leader of Syria and is like, [00:05:10] you know, rubbing shoulders or rubbing elbows with our federal government's leaders. - I how is that okay? - Yeah. So let's break down the hypocrisies here because there are plenty. So we're going to get back to the topic of blowback, [00:05:28] because America does this all the time. Israel does this all the time. Oh, let's fund a bunch of terrorists. And then, but it's okay because they're fighting against my enemies. Oh, oops. Now they're fighting against us. I could have never seen it coming. I see it coming. This guy one day will fight against us as well. [00:05:43] Okay, so point number two is so, like, Venezuelan fishermen are terrorists. Peace. Protesters are terrorists. Yeah. People who are for, just Palestinians existing or against a genocide or terrorists. [00:05:58] These are different people that have been called terrorists by our government, but an actual terrorist who sent suicide bombers to kill people, not a terrorist, right? So you see how Orwellian this is, how Kafkaesque this is. So we are living in 1984. So now the third part of this is the Israelis often say, [00:06:17] and America and Israel, there's really no difference because obviously Marco Rubio works for Israel. There's no way we allow this guy into the UN if Israel doesn't want him to be in the UN. And so we and, you know, Ken Klippenstein has this great thing, explanation of how the [00:06:32] American propaganda at the UN is like word for word, Israeli propaganda. Right? So the Israelis are in favor of this guy, and they help put him into power. And there's a reason for that. We'll get back to that as well. So but they often say, oh, you know, the pro-Israel zealots. Oh, you guys are from Muslim extremists. Okay, now here's a perfect example. [00:06:50] No, we don't care about religion. We're against all extremists. We're against Israeli extremists, Muslim extremists were against this guy because he's al Qaeda and he was fighting against us, right? We're not part of the dumb idiot CIA who goes, oh, yeah, [00:07:07] I bet he won't fight us later. Let's fund and weaponize this terrorist because Israel wants us to. Right. So, okay, we are equal opportunity against all extremists. Israel, on the other hand, not only has terrorists in its cabinet like Ben-Gvir, [00:07:26] who was convicted of enabling, terrorism, after former prime ministers or former terrorists, etc., they're doing 66 times the terrorism of Hamas in Gaza, etc. But now they're in favor of Muslim terrorists, too, as long as it [00:07:43] has nothing to do with Jews or anything, as long as it helps Israel agenda of territorial expansion. And that's what this is all related to. Now, Bashar al Assad obviously wasn't a great person, wasn't a great guy, and was a dictator. [00:07:59] But there was one difference between Bashar al-Assad versus, who's now the leader of Syria. And what was that? What was it about Bashar al-Assad that Israel wasn't so happy about? [00:08:14] So, they wanted as part of Greater Israel is western Syria, and Bashar al Assad doesn't didn't want Israel to take some of Syria's land. - How dare he? - So this is unacceptable. He did not bow his head to Israel, so he must be obviously murdered or driven from [00:08:32] power and replaced by a literal terrorist. Now, Assad's a terrible guy. So two things can be true at the same time. Saddam Hussein was a terrible guy, and we shouldn't have wasted several trillion dollars and many thousands of American lives fighting a guy who wasn't our particular enemy. [00:08:49] He was also fighting against Al-Qaeda and asterisks. Israel. Oh, look at that. Israel said that he was their number one enemy. So we had we had to we owe Israel. We had to go fight that war. Now, Assad was not taking orders from Israel. In fact, he was working with Russia and Iran. [00:09:06] That's not allowed. Israel says that's not allowed. They get to determine the foreign relations of every single country. And lo and behold, as they put this guy into power and topple Assad, guess what Israel did? You'll never guess. - They took land in western Syria. - Yeah, yeah. [00:09:22] So he has tried to rebrand himself. You'll notice in more recent public statements, he's very deferential to the government of Israel. There's no question about that. He's presenting himself as a bit of a moderate, if you will, but just a little taste of who this guy really is, especially in recent years. [00:09:41] So this is an older interview. But in 2013, while speaking to Al Jazeera, he said of Syria, We do not seek to rule the country. We seek that God's law will rule the country. Remember, he's a jihadist. So something to keep in mind. [00:09:57] His group's extremism has been pretty evident. Rights groups and Syrian activists accuse them of killing and detaining critics, and video shared online showed them executing women they accused of prostitution. They were tough on religious minorities, whose beliefs they considered heretical. [00:10:14] They forbade idlib's Christians from displaying crosses or ringing church bells. And, they and other rebels seized Christian homes and farmland. To be fair, that's also exactly what Israel has done with Christians in Palestine. [00:10:30] As we've said, we are not in favor of extremists of any kind. Now, in 2022, Al Qaida's rebranding was carried out in earnest, I guess. So let me give you the details there. Al qaida apologized to father, and to other Christians, expressing hope [00:10:48] that they could turn the page, according to Geloof, who is now bishop of Aleppo. Much of the Christian's property has since been returned. This man is trustworthy. He said if he promises something, he carries it out. And he also earned the trust of the US government. As you can see from the photo I showed you earlier, where he was warmly embraced [00:11:07] by our Secretary of State. And also after Trump met with Al-shara in May, he expressed confidence in him and lifted all US sanctions against him and Syria. But I'm sure you've all seen some of the stories of sectarian violence that [00:11:22] have continued to be carried out in Syria since the toppling of Bashar al-Assad. Much of it directed at Christians, directed at Druse and Al-shara has not been able to reign any of that in. And so, going in and destabilizing countries like this on behalf of a foreign [00:11:42] country, not even in the best interests of the United States is a bad idea. And we're seeing that play out right now. Yeah. And so that leads back to the blowback. So I did a story I was very proud of many years ago about, hey, where did this Muslim extremism come from in the first place? [00:11:57] Because if you don't know this, in the 1960s and 70s, they used to go around in miniskirts in Iran and Afghanistan, etc. All of a sudden the place became so extreme. Well, it turns out, several different, folks, but primarily America and Saudi Arabia, were funding, [00:12:17] both schools and media that was pushing an extreme version of Islam. Now, why did America do that? Because they wanted the Afghans to become religious zealots, to fight against the godless communists, as the Soviet Union was trying to take Afghanistan. [00:12:34] So they thought, oh, we got a great idea. Let's turn these, this population into frothing at the mouth extremist Muslims, because then they'll attack our enemy, Russia. Oops. And that Taliban, we literally funded the Taliban, literally, and let alone Saddam Hussein. [00:12:50] There's a picture of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein as he sells them weapons of mass destruction, which he then used against Iran. Because we told him to. So we've been working with terrorists the whole time. We, in fact, we've helped to create terrorists, thinking, oh, it's okay. There won't be any blowback. I bet the Taliban is great to us, right? [00:13:08] And they never learn a lesson. We destabilized Libya. Now there's a raging civil war there. Slavery is back in Libya. Iraq was a gigantic mess. And now they're playing around with potentially attacking Iran. And they've handed over Syria to a known and wanted terrorist just because he [00:13:29] allowed Israel to take western Syria. So it's going to come and blow back on us. And now, you know for a fact. Now you see, whether it's Jewish, Christian or Muslim, it doesn't matter. Our government doesn't mind terrorists at all. 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