Quote:Please do not forget that we created ISIS.  They were Obama's so-called "junior varsity", the "moderate" rebels we armed to take on Assad in the phony "civil war" in Syria.  There was never a civil war  - the forces trying to remove Assad were always from outside of Syria.  It has always been a proxy war led by the U.S. / U.K. / Israel / Saudis to oust Assad so a natural gas pipeline could be run through Syria to the coast.  

 

That couldn't be further from the truth.

 

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The US created Al Qaeda when it abandoned the Mujahideen after giving them loads of state-of-the-art weaponry. It largely created ISIS when it "liberated" Iraq, leaving behind, again, lots of weapons for the new radicals to find. We're like some kind of failed Batman. We keep creating our own villains, we just don't know how to stop the Joker from gassing Gotham.

 

The arms supplied to the Mujahideen were nowhere near "state-of-the-art".  In fact, they were mostly older, outdated Russian and Chinese weapons.  This was a covert operation by the CIA and the Pakistani intelligence agency (ISI).  The weapons all came from communist countries.

 

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But yeah, my take on the refugees: I don't think a great number of ISIS operatives are coming across. In fact, I think ISIS actually wants us to deny asylum to refugees in hopes that it drives a further wedge between the US and the Middle Eastern Muslim population. It's also worth pointing out here that the attackers in Paris were all there legally, and none were refugees.

 

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That is very naive and is further from fact than you realize.  I would suggest first reading up on the difference between Shia and Sunni Muslims.  As I linked to before, I would suggest that you learn about the Salafi movement and Wahhabism.  This is what the regional conflict is all about and why groups like Al Qaeda, Hamas, The Muslim Brotherhood and ISIS (just to name a few) form.

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