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I don’t think handing SYRIA over to ISIS was the intention but power sharing among radical Sunnis and a sharia state was considered by the obama team to be acceptable

ISIS will turn out to have been a grand miscalculation on many levels

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I don’t think handing SYRIA over to ISIS was the intention but power sharing among radical Sunnis and a sharia state was considered by the obama team to be acceptable

You're probably right - Obama was probably hoping that a Syrian version of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood would run the country. This is what Obama and McCain have in mind when they speak of Syria's "moderate rebels."