Which just might explain some of why Russia is involved keeping Assad in power, and close to the situation to monitor if ISIS has found or deployed them.
Duh. Correction: The Bekaa (Beqaa) Valley is in Lebanon, not Syria.
The evidence suggests that the Obama administration has not simply been engaging, legitimating, enriching and emboldening Islamists who have now taken over or are ascendant in much of the Middle East.
Starting in March 2011, when American diplomat Christopher Stevens was designated the liaison to the “opposition” in Libya, the Obama administration has been arming them, including jihadists like Abdelhakim Belhadj, the leader of the al Qaeda franchise known as the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group. "