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To: hardspunned

In Syria the US-UK launched the Civil War with the jihadist Bin Laden followers (Al-Qaeda lovers) in 2011.

Then Hezbollah, the Iranians and Russians helped prop up the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad.

Next the new high-octane jihadists called ISIS appeared on the scene to wreak hell and havoc on Assad, his allies and the people of northern Iraq.


3 posted on 03/28/2024 9:47:40 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: Nextrush
The world continues to pay for the Obama era interventions in support of Sunni Muslim groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood, in Libya, Egypt, and Syria. For all its evil and brutality, the Assad dynasty in Syria protected the Christian and Muslim minorities against the Sunni majority.

ISIS is a bastard child of Obama's policies. They were bombed into irrelevance by Trump but, like the Taliban in Afghanistan, have reemerged during Obama's current crypto third term.

14 posted on 03/28/2024 10:09:30 AM PDT by katana
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“In Syria the US-UK launched the Civil War with the jihadist Bin Laden followers”

Not true. ISIS was not in the mix in Syria in the start of the civil rest agains Asad. Those who rose up the opposition to Assad were not followers of Bin Laden. They were a mixture of many different groups none of which had connections to Al Queda or Bin Laden, while some had histories associated with the Syrian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.

ISIS entered Syria from Iraq after the civil war in Syria made parts of Syria out of the control of Assad and nearly “no mans lands”.

Too many people take consequences and conflate them to be intentions, which they often are not.

The U.S. never intended to grow Jihadists in Afghanistan when it helped fund militants opposition to the Soviet occupation. By American stupidity it allowed the Saudis and the Pakistani intelligence to deliver the local forces (of their choosing) and the U.S. supplied its military and technical expertise. The consequences - Bin Laden growing in Afghanistan - was not a U.S. intention, but a U.S. blunder. The U.S. repeated the same blunder in Syria, and again, as in Afghanistan, and turn around - quit supporting the “Syrian opposition”, which it did, and then go after ISIS, which it did. (Just as it had previously had to go into Afghanistan against the Jihadists the Pakistani intelligence helped lift up - the Taliban.

U.S. blunders more than U.S. intentions.


18 posted on 03/28/2024 10:15:15 AM PDT by Wuli (ena)
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