Barack Obama is mix up with the Islamics Groups

Barack Obama respond to Islamic States is a complete failure

Labib Al Nahhas is head of foreign political relations for Ahrar al-Sham.

As has become obvious, the Obama administration’s response to the Syrian conflict is an abject failure. No clear strategy has been determined; the administration’s “red lines” have not been honored. Short-term, stopgap measures informed by the Iraq and Afghanistan experiences, along with the noise generated by a media fixated on the Islamic State, have taken priority over achievable, long-term goals. The result: a death toll commonly estimated at between 200 000 and 300 000 people (though it’s certainly higher), more than 11 million displaced and numerous cities in ruins.

Nowhere is this failure clearer than in the consequence of the misguided way that Syrian revolutionaries are labeled as either “moderate” or “extremist.”

In December, Secretary of State John F. Kerry stated that “Syrians should not have to choose between a tyrant and the terrorists.” There was, Kerry declared, a third option: “the moderate Syrian opposition who are fighting both extremists and the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad every day.” Unfortunately, this commendable view has broken down because the United States has defined the term “moderate” in such a narrow and arbitrary fashion that it excludes the bulk of the mainstream opposition.

The group to which I belong, Ahrar al-Sham, is one example. Our name means “Free Men of Syria.” We consider ourselves a mainstream Sunni Islamic group that is led by Syrians and fights for Syrians. We are fighting for justice for the Syrian people. Yet we have been falsely accused of having organizational links to al-Qaeda and of espousing al-Qaeda’s ideology.

Nothing could be further from the truth. We believe that Syria needs a national unifying project that cannot be controlled or delivered by a single party or group and should not be bound to a single ideology. We believe in striking a balance that respects the legitimate aspirations of the majority as well as protects minority communities and enables them to play a real and positive role in Syria’s future. We believe in a moderate future for Syria that preserves the state and institutes reforms that benefit all Syrians.

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WASHINGTON: The Washington Post ran an opinion piece from Syrian Islamist group Ahar- al-Sham criticizing U.S. policies, giving an unusual platform to a group that has allied with supporters of Al-Qaeda.

The piece, posted online late Friday and penned by the group’s foreign relations head Labib al-Nahhas, excoriates the strategy of U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration in Syria, calling it an “abject failure.”

In its quest to not support radical groups, American policy has so narrowly defined the term “moderate” that it excludes most opposition groups in the country, including Ahrar al-Sham, Nahhas said.

Nahhas added that his militia has been “falsely accused” of being close to Al-Qaeda and “unfairly vilified” by the Obama administration.

Ahrar al-Sham, one of the most powerful rebel groups, has allied with Al-Qaeda affiliate the Nusra Front in fighting against the Syrian regime and ISIS.

Ahrar al-Sham, Nusra and ISIS have been targeted in U.S.-led raids in Syria that were launched in order to destroy ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

The U.S. label “moderate” is an important designation because it makes a group eligible for training and support from American programs. U.S. military officials recently reported that 60 fighters were being trained to fight ISIS, far below the 5,400 trainee target for the first year of its program.

The military blamed the small number on difficulties vetting moderate groups willing to take on ISIS as their primary foe.

Nahhas said the U.S. should stop taking such a narrow view of the conflict and start recognizing the legitimate mainstream opposition such as Ahrar al-Sham. “Stuck inside their own bubble, White House policymakers have allocated millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to support failed CIA efforts to support so-called ‘moderate’ forces in Syria,” he wrote.

Washington should “admit that the Islamic State’s [ISIS’] extremist ideology can be defeated only through a homegrown Sunni alternative – with the term ‘moderate’ defined not by CIA handlers but by Syrians themselves.”

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Barack Obama should he return to school and learn what Islam since it is himself a Muslim home? Is it an American patriot and a dormant doll Islamic jihads in the United States.

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