White House rebuffed Clinton-Petraeus plan to arm Syrian rebels: report

[John2]

48. Well, you need to

understand the politics because the politics is aligned with different interests of the people. And the interests of the people are which groups control the resources, for example land. We have a double standard when it comes to the interests of Israel. Some of it is religion also. The U.S. primarily got in the Middle East after World War II. Before World War II, we had no interests in that part of the World. The only Western nations that had an interest were Great Britain and France.

Great Britain inherited the old Ottoman Empire which included Palestine. Jordan was also part of that Ottoman Empire. After World War II, Britain was pressured by President Truman to abdicate the responsibilty for a Jewish homeland to the United States. The Arabs opposed it, and that is what caused the Six Days War. That is the War, Israel occupied territory.

The Arabs are very divided because of their religious views. Our interests has also become oil. It is why we are allied with certain Arab Kingdoms that are not democracies. When it comes to the choice between resources and human rights, I don't think some in our government would be called saints, regarding their past history. We don't have some respect human rights in our own country if you look at our past Civil War and history. And we did have a Policy called Manifest Destiny when it came to the native Americans. And nobody whichever side Americans choose to arm, there will be atrocities for revenge.