[markomalley]

This report neglects to mention the thousands of former members of the "moderate" Free Syrian Army who have defected to ISIS. For example, the Dawud Brigade which defected last June.

[Colorado Doug]

Shocked, shocked, I tell ya! Who could have seen this coming?

[cripplecreek]

And Obama is still hot to arm the “moderate” rebels in Syria.

[Wolfie]

I just assumed.

[Zhang Fei]

This report neglects to mention the thousands of former members of the "moderate" Free Syrian Army who have defected to ISIS. For example, the Dawud Brigade which defected last June.

McCain will say that by not supporting the FSA with more stuff, we drove them into the arms of ISIL. Basically, if we don't give them everything they want, they will make a pact with the devil, and it will have been our fault. This kind of begs the question - why would we want to bankroll the kind of people who would make a deal with the devil? Assad isn't Hitler - he doesn't rule the world's #2 industrial power. In fact, I'd argue that ISIL, while not Hitler in terms of industrial capability, is somewhat closer to Nazism, ideologically, than Assad will ever be. If there's an alliance to be made it's with Assad against ISIL.

[xzins]

http://news.yahoo.com/islamic-state-fighters-using-us-arms-study-085735376.html

or

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/09/08/uk-iraq-crisis-attacks-idUKKBN0H30O220140908

[elpadre]

Wasn’t the root of the Benghazi CIA operation the distribution of US weapons to Islamists??

And the US arming the Morsi ME crowd. ME, I hope everyone, is the mother organization spawning all of the radical groups such a AQ and ISIS.

And were we not training these same people with our military in Jordan??