Just because you are paranoid it doesn’t mean someone isn’t out to get you.
Circumstantially this scenario is very plausible. Maybe the novices running our govt never intended to set up a “jihad “ army of radicals to overthrow Assad and in the process, set a brushfire that would get out of control, but they certainly are novices enough to have done so.
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