More Foreign Policy Incompetence – U.S. Humanitarian Aid is Going Directly to ISIS

‘The convoys have to be approved by ISIS and you have to pay them: The bribes are disguised and itemized as transportation costs,’ says an aid coordinator who spoke to The Daily Beast on the condition he not be identified in this article. The kickbacks are either paid by foreign or local nongovernmental organizations tasked with distributing the aid, or by the Turkish or Syrian transportation companies contracted to deliver it.
The State Department official said he, too, was conflicted about the programs… ‘Are we helping indirectly the militants to build their caliphate? I wrestle with this.’
– From Sunday’s Daily Beast article: U. S. Humanitarian Aid Going to ISIS
The Daily Beast has been at the forefront of exposing the bizarre emergence of the latest terror threat known as ISIS, which is being used to take away civil liberties at home, and fuel more chaos and destruction abroad. It was their work in June that first highlighted the fact that ISIS was and is being funded and supported by U. S. allies in the Persian Gulf. I commented on the absurdity of the situation in my piece, America’s Disastrous Foreign Policy – My Thoughts on Iraq, in which I noted:
But in the years they were getting started, a key component of ISIS’s support came from wealthy individuals in the Arab Gulf States of Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Sometimes the support came with the tacit nod of approval from those regimes; often, it took advantage of poor money laundering protections in those states, according to officials, experts, and leaders of the Syrian opposition, which is fighting ISIS as well as the regime.
‘Everybody knows the money is going through Kuwait and that it’s coming from the Arab Gulf,’ said Andrew Tabler, senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Studies. ‘Kuwait’s banking system and its money changers have long been a huge problem because they are a major conduit for money to extremist groups in Syria and now Iraq.’
Well, the Daily Beast has done it again. This time courtesy of Sunday’s excellent article, U. S. Humanitarian Aid Going to ISIS. Just in case you think American foreign policy incompetence couldn’t get any worse, I present to you the following excerpts. Read it and weep:

This post was published at Liberty Blitzkrieg on Oct 21, 2014.