On Sunday’s Meet the Press, John McCain, Chairman of the US Senate Armed Services committee, admitted that despite Obama’s omission of Syria’s Assad in his AUMF to fight ISIS, we are indeed training fighters to go after Assad:
CHUCK TODD: Let me start, actually, based on what you just heard Richard Engel report about the state of things in Iraq. And as we debate this war resolution, first of all, why does the president need this authorization when we have two authorizations that essentially give him the authority to do what he wants in, arguably, both of these countries?
SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN: Probably it’s not absolutely necessary. But it’s been since 2002, as I recall, that we’ve had a resolution that was aimed particularly at al-Qaeda and those responsible for the attacks on the United States. So, I think it’s probably appropriate and it’s probably appropriate to have the debate.
That president hasn’t come forward yet with a plan or a strategy for us to succeed, and in his proposal he left out Bashar Assad, which is really amazing in that we are training young Syrians to go in and fight against Bashar Assad. Does that mean we aren’t going to protect them against the barrel bombing of Bashar Assad, where’s already killed well over 200,000 Syrians? It’s really kind of convoluted. And I’d say maybe call it an uncertain trumpet.
It’s just as we’ve been saying. Obama is training these troops to go after Assad even though he claims it is only about ISIS. Syria is a very important element in this emerging caliphate to Erdogan and he strongly believes Assad must fall in order for it to happen.
As Walid Shoebat has pointed out, this is about Dabiq:
Dabiq to ISIS and Turkey is not only a prophecy, but a repeated prophecy which is the focus of the megalomaniac of Turkey, Erdogan, who is set on reviving his Ottoman dream and wants a repeat of Dabiq which Arabic sources tell us:
“The use of Dabiq by ISIS is symbolic of the major historical event at Dabiq, it is the name of the battle the [Turkish] Ottomans won which paved the way for their occupation of Iraq and the Levant for more than four centuries, as well as being the springboard for the Islamic armies to fight the Rum(Romans) in their quest for world domination.”