Obama’s New Anti-Terrorist Group: Islamist and Pro-Terrorist Turkish Regime Annointed as Co-Leader; Israel, Left Out

By Barry Rubin

Every time I strongly criticize the Obama Administration's foreign policy, there are those who think calling this president's policy incredibly disastrous is an exaggeration. Within a few hours, however, this government proves my criticism to be accurate by still another astonishingly damaging, wrong-headed action. Here is the latest example.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced the establishment of a new Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF). According to the statement, this initiative is the main activity in the administration’s effort to organize a framework for the international counterterrorism effort. In other words, it is very important....

There are 30 founding members.... Switzerland is a mmber; Pakistan and India, despite the former's sponsoring terrorism agianst the latter, are members; Israel is not.

But there’s more. The United States is not leading this new organization alone. It has a co-director. That co-director is Turkey....

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