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Except that US policy has now made getting rid of Daesh the priority in Syria…
Don;t care what they say… the French carrier entering the fray is proof they are increasing the pressure on Assad as a direct result of Russias increased pressure on the US backed insurgency.
NATO not in Syria?
Then who the hell bombed Syria during all this time?
originally posted by: DJW001
a reply to: Tyrion79
Where does he say that the United States is funding ISIS? He does not even mention it by any of its former names.
"ISIS got started through funding from our friends and allies, because these people will tell you in the region, if you want somebody who fight to the death against Hezbollah, you don't put out a recruiting poster and say, you know, sign up for us or we gonna make a better world. You go after zealots and you go after these religious fundamentalists, that's who fights Hezbollah."
I agree that he doesn't say that the U.S. directly funded ISIS (although one could begin to wonder, if this didn't actually happen).
He diplomatically says that the funding was from U.S. friends and allies (which are funded by the U.S.) and by knowing this was happening, because it probably was very convenient at that time to fight Hezbollah, they are just as guilty in my opinion.
So I think it's more than just a little bit hypocritic on account of the U.S. to now state that ISIS is our biggest enemy, while they have let them get more powerful in the past, when it fitted their agenda.
(or was it an Iraeli agenda to fight Hezbollah?)
Or do you think that the great masterminds at the Pentagon were just naive at the time, to allow the funding of one terrorist organization in order to destroy another?
originally posted by: Nikola014
NATO not in Syria?
Then who the hell bombed Syria during all this time?
originally posted by: kloejen
Al-queda was aided and funded by the CIA...
Experts debate whether or not the al-Qaeda attacks were blowback from the American CIA's "Operation Cyclone" program to help the Afghan mujahideen. Robin Cook, British Foreign Secretary from 1997 to 2001, has written that al-Qaeda and bin Laden were "a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies", and that "Al-Qaida, literally 'the database', was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians
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IS is a result of the illegal war in Iraq.
Ohh and
Pentagon loses track of $500 million in weapons, equipment given to Yemen
Pentagon loses track of $500 million in weapons, equipment given to Yemen
Ohh, you may say potato, i say TOYOTA!
Just last year it was reported that the US State Department had been sending in fleets of specifically Toyota-brand trucks into Syria to whom they claimed was the “Free Syrian Army.”
The Mystery of ISIS’ Toyota Army Solved
And lately about 500 oiltrucks got bombed to smithereens by Russia. Allegedly they are used to transport stolen oil.
Revenues from oil smuggling are a key part of IS financing.
Russian jets 'hunting' IS oil tanker trucks
Could this be related to the recent drop in oil prices?
What you need to know is that according to this leaked DOD report, opposition forces, the United States, the Saudis, Jordan, Qatar and more, wanted a Salafist or fundamental Islamic group to take over eastern Syria in order to isolate and overthrow the Syrian President Assad’s regime.
It was a plan to overthrow Assad. Three years later, Assad remains in power, and now the most violent, radical terror group the modern world has ever known is entrenched in parts of Syria and Iraq, while exporting terror to Europe.
The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
Just another one in the list showing that the U.S. supported ISIS all along.
originally posted by: TheBandit795
a reply to: DJW001
Well I guess you and I read two different things. The supporting powers includes the U.S. government. They wanted the Salafist principality. That's what I get out of it.
originally posted by: TheBandit795
Yet, they supported Al-Maliki for years afterwards whose government had Iraq in a quasi dictatorship and created the ideal environment for DAASH to grow and advance in Iraq.
It still says they supported DAASH/ISIS even though they had some concerns.
originally posted by: reddragon2015
the US makes weapons and weapons need war. follow the dollars.