One would have to believe, for example, that Assad's Ba'athists (which is to say "Nazis," because all the Ba'athists are immediate and direct descendants of Adolf Hitler and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem) are probably in league with IS, which, arguably, makes the ground war between the Assad regime and the "IS," in the latter's homebase are (at Al Raqqah, in Syria) what the Russians call "спектакль," (mere spectacle) a mere theatrical performance.
The wicked fire-fight between the Assad regime and IS, over the Taqba AFB, strategic to IS control over its nominal capital at Al Raqqah, is theater?
Not beyond belief, not beyond practical for fascists to cynically use the True Believing among their foreign followers to confuse the West, but would Assad risk his fixed assets, his troops, that way?
Like I say... there are significant problems with this, not least among them is the source and timing of the story. The
Post is a long-running sounding board for the Agency, and for Foggy Bottom. This story appears to back our own Ba'athists "runnin' things" here, in the US, those who want to distract attention from the smoking gun with regard to Benghazi, just now, and to back the narrative that pretends the "hot mess" in Iraq today is the fault of Bush and not the policy of abandonment pushed since 2009.
Exactly.
My immediate reaction as well. And the widely touted Atlantic article about how ISIS wants us to enter the fray was more extremely clever liberal crap.
A presidential election is coming up, and history must be changed to blame the chaos of the world on Bush and avoid the truth about how horrible the Democrats are.