{"id":24982,"date":"2015-02-12T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24982"},"modified":"2015-02-12T10:39:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T15:39:00","slug":"something-to-ponder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24982","title":{"rendered":"Something To Ponder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you agree with the following or not, consider the following as a plausible explanation for a foreign policy that seems to have no rhyme or reason.<\/p>\n<p>On February 4, <a href=\"http:\/\/newzvids.com\/former-cia-agent-obama-administration-supporting-islamic-jihadists-worldwide\/\" target=\"_blank\">Newsvids<\/a> posted an interview with Clare Lopez, a former CIA agent. I\u00a0 have met Clare personally and consider her a very good source of honest information.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Clare Lopez who is a Former <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Central Intelligence Agency\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.951796,-77.146586&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.951796,-77.146586 (Central%20Intelligence%20Agency)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">CIA Operations<\/a> Officer and member of the Citizens\u2019 Commission on <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Benghazi\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=32.1166666667,20.0666666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=32.1166666667,20.0666666667 (Benghazi)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Benghazi<\/a> tells <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Steve Malzberg\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steve_Malzberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Steve Malzberg<\/a> on Newsmax TV that the release of recordings from 2011 in which Pentagon officials criticize Hillary Clinton reveal she was not trusted.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Lopez also pointed out that in these released tapes \u201cGadhafi made very clear that he was willing to enter into a white flag of truce [and] set up talks to discuss his abdication and exile.\u201d and she said that \u201cThe war never had to happen, except that certain people in the highest ranks of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Obama administration\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/obama-administration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Obama administration<\/a>, including \u2026 Clinton, wanted to be sure not only that Gadhafi was gone, but that their favorite opposition militias, the rebel militias belonging to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Al-Qaeda\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Al-Qaeda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">al-Qaida<\/a>, would take over.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"easy-ads\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Lopez said the Obama administration\u2019s goal was clear from 2009 \u2014 to change U.S. policy toward Islam and the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Islam\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Islam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Islamic<\/a> world and as the Citizens\u2019 Commission on Benghazi interim report of April 2013 pointed out, our administration has switched sides and that\u2019s not widely understood.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cOur administration is not on the side of our traditional allies and those like Gadhafi, who was fighting against al-Qaida.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cOur administration has switched sides in the global jihad wars in order to support the rise to power of Islamic jihadis, Sunnis in North Africa, Iran, and the Shiites in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Persian Gulf\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=26.0,52.0&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=26.0,52.0 (Persian%20Gulf)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Persian Gulf region<\/a>\u201d Lopez said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Deposing Gadhafi made no sense&#8211;he was cooperating with western countries and had given up most (if not all) of his weapons of mass destruction after the invasion of Iraq. Deposing Mubarak made no sense&#8211;<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Egypt\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=30.0333333333,31.2166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=30.0333333333,31.2166666667 (Egypt)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Egypt<\/a> was stable and to some extent protected minorities. There was no reason to support the unrest stirred up by the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Muslim Brotherhood\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ikhwanonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Muslim Brotherhood<\/a>. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, the Obama Administration has often been on the wrong side of history. Two clues as to the reason for this might be the Muslim Brotherhood connections of Hillary Clinton&#8217;s top aide, and the background of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Valerie Jarrett\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Valerie_Jarrett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Valerie Jarrett<\/a>. Unfortunately, we have put the foxes in charge of the chicken coop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you agree with the following or not, consider the following as a plausible explanation for a foreign policy that seems to have no rhyme or reason. On February 4, Newsvids posted an interview with Clare Lopez, a former CIA &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24982\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,85,1457,154,850,900,285,1178],"class_list":["post-24982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-egypt","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-islam","tag-islamic-terrorism","tag-muslim-brotherhood","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-department-of-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24983,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24982\/revisions\/24983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}