[grania]

I just can't agree with arming anyone. What created this mess is that the US has provided weaponry, globally to groups to overthrow their govs. Either they haven't been loyal to us or they've been defeated and the arms end up with maniacs. What ISIS has is US weapons, training, and its initial financing. We have a moral obligation to destroy those weapons and those maniacs.

This concept of friending locals to overthrow stable govs and providing mischief to create protests is tearing the world apart. For all of those reasons, let the mideast figure it out. Let change be at the ballot box...and not fiascos like Ukraine, Egypt and Libya after overthrowing a gov.

I suspect that the solution would be Syria, Lebanon, the Kurds and Turkey all have an interest in stability. All four govs protect Christians. But instead we let Saudi Arabia set US foreign policy....for heaven's sake, they provided the 911 terrorists and are not the friends of our Christian-based civilization. How did the US ever get involved in overthrowing stable govs that kept Christians and other minorities safe? It's insane.

[Justa]

Stop lying.

The US has never supported ISIS. Has never armed ISIS and has never funded them.

ISIS was formerly Al Qaeda in Iraq, then Al Nasiriya then ISIS. Coalition forces defeated AQ-Iraq in 2009. They fled to Syria and morphed into Al Nasiriya. They were kicked out of AQ in Syria and became ISIS. In 2012 they returned to Iraq as ISIS.

We’ve always known who they are and what they are about (thugocracy). We have never funded them. We have never armed them. We created a vacuum when we left and they have filled it. The only way we “created” ISIS was in pulling combat troops from Iraq. That’s all.

Stop the BS about us funding and arming ISIS.