It’s accomplished by allowing jihadis to seize a large quantity US equipment, tanks, anti-aricraft, and humvees. It’s accomplished by providing small arms, body armor, grenades, etc to jihadis.
Ignore the show, look at the results.
“Ignore the show, look at the results.”
By this logic we armed the North Vietnamese in April 1975 and are therefore responsible for their subsequent invasion of Cambodia -”because we armed them”.
Try thinking a little deeper. Did we directly arm ISIS? This is the flawed pretense of your argument. And the answer is no, we have never armed ISIS. We also vetted those we have supported for Islamist ties. If some of their weapons fell into Islmasist hands that is not the purpose of our policy just an unfortunate result.
We’re doing much more against ISIS than we did against the Khmer Rouge following their defeat of the Cambodia army or the Vietnamese communists when they invaded Cambodia in 1978. By your reasoning we armed both the Khmer Rouge and Vietnamese communists since they obtained weapons from our allies after defeating them. It’s just plain nuts.