Not really news, since this was primarily what they were doing clandestinely thorough the Benghazi consulate in Libya going back three years ago, but still teeth-gnashing, nonetheless:
While U.S. warplanes strike at the militants of the so-called Islamic State in both Syria and Iraq, truckloads of U.S. and Western aid has been flowing into territory controlled by the jihadists, assisting them to build their terror-inspiring “Caliphate.”
The aid—mainly food and medical equipment—is meant for Syrians displaced from their hometowns, and for hungry civilians. It is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, European donors, and the United Nations. Whether it continues is now the subject of anguished debate among officials in Washington and European. The fear is that stopping aid would hurt innocent civilians and would be used for propaganda purposes by the militants, who would likely blame the West for added hardship.
The Bible says if your enemy is hungry, feed him, and if he is thirsty, give him something to drink—doing so will “heap burning coals” of shame on his head. But there is no evidence that the militants of the Islamic State, widely known as ISIS or ISIL, feel any sense of disgrace or indignity (and certainly not gratitude) receiving charity from their foes.
Quite the reverse, the aid convoys have to pay off ISIS emirs (leaders) for the convoys to enter the eastern Syrian extremist strongholds of Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor, providing yet another income stream for ISIS militants, who are funding themselves from oil smuggling, extortion and the sale of whatever they can loot, including rare antiquities from museums and archaeological sites.
“The convoys have to be approved by ISIS and you have to pay them: the bribes are disguised and itemized as transportation costs,” says an aid coordinator who spoke to the Daily Beast on the condition he not be identified in this article. The kickbacks are either paid by foreign or local non-governmental organizations tasked with distributing the aid, or by the Turkish or Syrian transportation companies contracted to deliver it.
So our government knows that all this "humanitarian" aid is going to ISIS rather than "innocent Syrians" (if there is such a thing), and they're evidently perfectly okay with that. At the very least, one would think that if they were truly "anguished" about it, they'd realize that what the jihadists say about us isn't going to be too overly affected by the actual facts on the ground. But then again, "facts" are whatever Barack Obama says they are, right? At least "officially".
Which makes this gentlemen's genuine anguish all the more...quaint:
“I am alarmed that we are providing support for ISIS governance,” says Jonathan Schanzer, a Mideast expert with the Washington D.C.-based think tank Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “By doing so we are indemnifying the militants by satisfying the core demands of local people, who could turn on ISIS if they got frustrated.”
Meh. If they did, ISIS would just massacre them like they do everybody else. More likely they'd just keep quiet and endure the misery, like good little dhimmis.
Should we be alarmed? Well, yeah, I guess, but the time for alarm should have been six years ago before Barack Obama was installed in power forever. It's a more than a little late in the game to suddenly panic about it now; rather like spontaneously hyperventilating about your failure to make that extra trip to the drug store when you see your twenty-one year old slacker son plopped in your recliner playing his PS3 instead of going to college or trying to get a job so you can live off of him for a change.
Walid Shoebat closes the circle:
If you need evidence that simply throwing money at a problem is not only unproductive but counter-productive, just take a look at Syria. Humanitarian aid designated for ISIS victims is actually going to… ISIS instead. While the report from the Daily Beast’s Jamie Dettmer focuses exclusively on ISIS confiscation of non-lethal aid, is it really a leap to see armaments approved by both Houses of the U.S. Congress going the same route?
And that's not counting all the American weaponry that fell into ISIS's hands after the Iraqi army disintegrated this past summer. And all the U.S. arms they clandestinely received from the Obama Regime going back to 2011.
That "several well-placed neutron warheads" strategy is looking better all the time, mark my words.
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