Vice President Joe Biden’s forced apology for speaking the partial
truth about the origins of the Islamic State (IS) is the most dramatic –
and, for a superpower, humbling – example yet of the absolute disarray
in U.S. policy in the Arab and Muslim world. The man who is,
technically, the second most powerful official in the empire, was
compelled to retract his earlier assertion that “our allies in the
region” created the conditions for the rise of IS by funding the “proxy
Sunni-Shia war.” Turkish president Recep Tayyep Erdogan – whose border
is the chief conduit for Islamist fighters into Syria, and who has
openly abetted the unfolding IS conquest of the Kurdish border town of
Kobani – exploded in rage at being out-ed by Obama’s number two, as did
the foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates, which Biden named
along with Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Biden might also have cited Jordan and Kuwait, but the biggest
omission was the United States, which has on many occasions taken credit
for “vetting” the dispersal of funds to “rebel” forces dominated by the
al-Qaida affiliate al-Nusra, the Islamic Front, and the Islamic State.
One can imagine the cursing out Biden got from his boss, the Jihadist
Supporter-in-Chief, with Obama waving his Kill List at the VP while
ordering him to recant by Tuesday, when decisions to terminate with
extreme prejudice are handed down from the Oval Office.
-- Glen Ford, "VP Joe Biden Accidentally Tells A Little of the Awful Truth" (Black Agenda Report).