What about ISIS?
The White House put out a statement earlier in the evening to the effect that ISIS is the reason for US military to be in Syria but the statement quickly moves onto the chemical weapons allegation and threatens harsh consequences if there is a chemical weapons attack.
What about them?
Islamic State came out of the jihadist forces fighting Assad backed by our long time ally Saudi Arabia along with Qatar and the Gulf Arabs. Those countries as you know are in a dispute with each other now? Part of the effort to stir up hostility to Iran?
IS and all the havoc it has created and terror etc. etc. is traceable to our Saudi-Arab allies and other parties who created the civil war in Syria.
The US is now cleaning up a mess our “friends” created or is it?
I’ve read stuff saying the IS forces in Raqaa are only surrounded on three sides and being given an escape route to the south.
Assad and his supporters like Iran, Russia etc. contend this allows IS units to escape and fight Syrian soldiers further south at a besieged town and air base.
Heck, they are claiming that Israel’s attacks in Golan over the weekend are in support of Al-Qaeda in the form of Jabhat al-Nusra, the Saudi created jihadist force fighting Assad in Syria.
The real war that we are trying to control is for the Golan.