by Plantagenet » Sun 22 Jul 2018, 15:10:48
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'P')retty thin gruel Planty.
The Obama administration's role in arming and training jihadi armies in Syria is pretty well established. We already knew Obama sent US Army special forces into Syria to arm and train what the US called the "Free Syrian Army" to fight and overthrow the Assad regime. What was less well known was that the CIA was simultaneously arming and training groups of jihadists, including groups affiliated with Al Quaida, to fight against Assad. But this story is coming out now.
how-obama-armed-terrorists-in-syriaAnd, of course, people from the US-trained Al Qaida affiliates and other jihadi groups eventually formed ISIS.
So the list of things to blame Obama for should incude the idiocy of arming and training al-Quaida linked groups in Syria, which ultimately lead to the creation of ISIS.
Cheers!
PS: The NY Times recently reported that Trump has ended the CIA covert war in Syria. Obama was spending
a billion dollars a year on arming the al Nusra front (i.e. Al Qaida) and other jihadi groups in Syria---and all for nothing. The Assad regime is still in power, and all Obama has to show for the billions he spent in Syria is the creation of multiple armed jihadi groups including al Nusra (i.e. al Qaida) and ISIS.

In one of the stupidest policy moves ever, Obama and the CIA funded and armed terrorist groups in Syria.
Cheers!