Seem to recall some FR posters saying the early reports of this training weren’t true.
I’ll try to summarize from my limited perspective.
* It’s a myth that the USA directly trained or armed ISIS
* The USA did train some of the FSA
* The FSA has openly cooperated with Al Nusra in several battles. Al Nusra is basically Al Qaeda.
What a surprise that some of the FSA grew closer to them ideologically.
* A significant part of the FSA later joined ISIS. A lot of people saw this coming and portions of the FSA didn’t sound very different despite the press calling them “moderate”.
* ISIS acquired a massive USA weapons cache in Iraq.
To me it seems incredible that we couldn’t sabotage our equipment before they were captured.
Does that mean something fishy happened?
Maybe?
With our government having openly supported an islamist takeover in Egypt, not much would surprise me at this point.