Oh yeah, Assad...bad guy. He was the one leader in the middle east where you could drink alcohol, dance on Latakia beach in a bikini, be a Christian, be a Jew, be any species of moslem etc. Women could dress how they pleased, drive a car, have a job, travel, etc.
And State/CIA/USAID decided the Saudi Sunni throwbacks should have a wahabbist theocracy there instead. So we created and funded ISIS before they got out of hand. They were only supposed to overthrow Assad.
But any curious people out there ever wonder where the fleets of matching Toyota HiLux trucks came from? The matching uniforms and webgear? All the modern arms? Anyone wonder why they never worried about air attack and simply drove in massive convoys down MSRs on the open desert in broad daylight.
Our Syria adventure has been a complete joke. It resulted in the floods of millions of migrants into Europe, the creating of ISIS and more Sunni terrorism, and a tar baby we cannot extract from.
All so neocons like Bush and Hillary can play their grand game
The left wanted us to leave Iraq in 2004, which wouldn’t have helped the Kurds.
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Neocons are always wrong.
‘ISIS’ is just the more recent name for Zarqawi’s group al-Tawhid wal-Jihad [ a/k/a Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn, a/k/a al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI)], which was created in the 1990s and whose Syrian trained branch assassinated U.S. senior administrator of U.S. Agency for International Development Laurence Foley in 2002 Jordan before the Iraq war . ISIS was not ‘created’ by Bush, nor was it created by Obama, although Obama and the antiwar crowd insisted repeatedly that it was ‘unrelated’ to al Qaeda. The group later called ‘iSIS’ was also involved in the coordinated 1999 Millennium Plots, planned attacks on everything from LAX airport to Zarqawi’s particular target a hotel in Jordan used by Americans. Indeed, one of the reasons to go to war in Iraq, besides the fact that Iraq had never complied with the terms of the Gulf War cease fire in creating a complete declaration of what it had and what it destroyed, nor had it complied with the terms that it must return all Gulf War POWs...was that Iraq harbored the 1993 WTC bombmaker, harbored Abu Nidal and his organization, funded the terrorist group in the Philippines which attacked the US consulate and a bar frequented by US military , harbored the PFLP, was carrying out assassinations of dissidents in western countries, and harboring 2002 in its capital city of Baghdad Zarqawi’s group which later took the name ISIS.
I figured all of the arms came from Libya.