Gen. Wesley Clark: Saudis, Qatar Created ISIS Threat
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Monday, 25 Aug 2014 06:50 PM
By Greg Richter
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Wesley-Clark-Saudi-Qatar-ISIS/2014/08/25/id/590833
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark says Saudi Arabia and Qatar should take responsibility for creating the threat that both they and the West now face from the Islamic State (ISIS).
"The Saudis have for years funded extremism. Their money's all over the region," Clark said Monday on CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper."
The Saudi monarchy has bought billions of dollars' worth of U.S. weapons over the years and funneled them to extremist groups, he said.
"It can't be exporting extremism and at the same time ask the United States to protect it," Clark said. "This ISIS threat is going eventually to be pointed like a dagger right at the heart of the Saudi regime."
ISIS has taken over large portions of northern Iraq and eastern Syria in what it says is an attempt to establish a worldwide caliphate. Though neighboring Arab countries face the more immediate threat, they aren't acting because the Arab League isn't unified, Clark said.
Saudi Arabia and Qatar both have given weapons to the Free Syrian Army, fighting the Bashar Assad regime in Syria, but some of those weapons may also have gone to the extremist jihadi group al-Nusra Front, and even to ISIS before it was known it was a threat, Clark said.
Qatar and Saudi Arabia are rivals for Sunni leadership, he said, but they need to come together to join forces against the Islamic State.
The United States can provide "combat multipliers," he told CNN, but shouldn't be putting U.S. soldiers on the ground "carrying the burden for Saudi Arabia and Qatar."
Those countries should lead the effort, he said, because "they created this problem, along with Bashar Assad."
Clark disagreed with a tweet from Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham that was critical of inaction against the Islamic State by President Barack Obama.
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark says Saudi Arabia and Qatar should take responsibility for creating the threat that both they and the West now face from the Islamic State (ISIS).
"The Saudis have for years funded extremism. Their money's all over the region," Clark said Monday on CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper."
The Saudi monarchy has bought billions of dollars' worth of U.S. weapons over the years and funneled them to extremist groups, he said.
"It can't be exporting extremism and at the same time ask the United States to protect it," Clark said. "This ISIS threat is going eventually to be pointed like a dagger right at the heart of the Saudi regime."
ISIS has taken over large portions of northern Iraq and eastern Syria in what it says is an attempt to establish a worldwide caliphate. Though neighboring Arab countries face the more immediate threat, they aren't acting because the Arab League isn't unified, Clark said.
Saudi Arabia and Qatar both have given weapons to the Free Syrian Army, fighting the Bashar Assad regime in Syria, but some of those weapons may also have gone to the extremist jihadi group al-Nusra Front, and even to ISIS before it was known it was a threat, Clark said.
Qatar and Saudi Arabia are rivals for Sunni leadership, he said, but they need to come together to join forces against the Islamic State.
The United States can provide "combat multipliers," he told CNN, but shouldn't be putting U.S. soldiers on the ground "carrying the burden for Saudi Arabia and Qatar."
Those countries should lead the effort, he said, because "they created this problem, along with Bashar Assad."
Clark disagreed with a tweet from Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham that was critical of inaction against the Islamic State by President Barack Obama.
Clark said he respects Graham, "but in this case I think the White House is wisely marking time while it sorts out the situation on the ground. It wants to go in in an effective way — not simply stir the pot with a bunch of ineffective airstrikes somewhere."
Wesley Clark
Wesley
K. Clark was a U.S. Army general,
a director at the Atlantic Council of
the United States (think tank), a board member at the International Crisis Group, and a commissioner for the President's Commission on White House
Fellowships.
Note: Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a board member at the International Crisis Group, and was the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), and the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Chas. W. Freeman
Jr. is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), was the National Intelligence Council chairman
nominee for the Barack Obama administration,
and a U.S. ambassador for Saudi Arabia.
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is the president of the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), a director at the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), was a board member at the International Crisis Group, and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
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Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Ted
Turner is a co-chairman for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), and the founder of CNN.
Walter Isaacson was
the chairman & CEO for CNN, and
is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank).
David L. Grange is
a military analyst for CNN, a
director at the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial, and was a U.S. Army
general.
Maya Lin is the
designer for the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial, an honorary trustee at the Natural
Resources Defense Council, and was a commissioner for the President's Commission on White House
Fellowships.
Wesley K. Clark
was a U.S. Army general, is a commissioner
for the President's Commission on White
House Fellowships, a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), a board member at the International Crisis Group.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a board member at the International Crisis Group, and was the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace (think tank).
Chas. W. Freeman
Jr. is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), was the National Intelligence Council chairman
nominee for the Barack Obama administration,
a U.S. ambassador for Saudi Arabia,
and the president of the Middle East
Policy Council (think tank).
Wesley
K. Clark is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), a commissioner for the President's Commission on White a House Fellowships, a board member at the
International Crisis Group, and was
a U.S. Army general.
Abdallah
Bin Abd Al-Aziz Al Saud is the king of Saudi
Arabia, a benefactor for the Middle
East Policy Council (think tank), and his nephew is Alwaleed bin Talal.
Alwaleed bin
Talal is Abdallah Bin Abd Al-Aziz Al
Saud’s nephew, the prince of Saudi
Arabia, and the founder of the Alwaleed
Bin Talal Foundation.
Alwaleed
Bin Talal Foundation is a benefactor for the Islamic Development Bank, and was a funder for the Muslim Leaders
of Tomorrow.
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Leaders of Tomorrow is a sponsor for the Cordoba Initiative, and the American Society for Muslim Advancement.
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Rauf is the founder & chairman for the Cordoba Initiative, a co-founder
for the American Society for Muslim Advancement, a developer for Park51,
and married to Daisy Khan.
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Khan is married to Feisal Abdul
Rauf, an executive director for the American Society for Muslim Advancement, a developer for Park51, and was a director at the White
House Project.
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Gara
LaMarche was a director at the White
House Project, and the VP & director of U.S. programs for the Open
Society Foundations.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
Wesley
K. Clark is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), a board member at the International Crisis Group, a commissioner
for the President's Commission on White
House Fellowships, and was a U.S.
Army general.
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