[wolfman23601]

Putin needs Assad in power. That is his guy and it doesn’t surprise me that he would want to eradicate ISIS. Had Obama and the West not tried to interfere and provide support to get Assad overthrown, ISIS would not be what it is today.

[Califreak]

That’s kind of what I speculated.

I’m fairly ignorant of the politics over there

[KeyLargo]

It is all about oil

Syria’s Pipeline War: “Operation Gas Pains”

by Chip Northrup on September 7, 2013

Update: the US and its allies (France, the UAE, Saudi, etc.) are entering this gas war on the side of the loyal Sunni partisans that have been bankrolled by the gulf states gas pipeline consortium (see below) against the the rogue Sunni partisans (ISIS) for the same Sunni gas pipeline – that their paymasters in Qatar have lost control over, because ISIS has stolen enough oil fields and sells $3Million a day on the black market to be self-supporting. As well as against the Shiite and Alawite proxies that have been fighting for Iraq’s pipeline through Syria. Clear ?

The US has finally been drawn into this conflict, conveniently on the Sunni side of the street – in tactical and air support of Saudi proxies fighting Assad and his Iranian backers – over a gas pipeline concession.

http://www.nofrackingway.us/2013/09/07/gas-pipeline-war-in-syria/

[InterceptPoint]

Had Obama and the West not tried to interfere and provide support to get Assad overthrown, ISIS would not be what it is today.
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Now that is an interesting thought. I think you are right.