tinydancer
Diamond Member
Ah the Putin lovers are out in force today.
The US Didn’t Create ISIS -- Assad and Saddam Did
Anti-American Leftists who claim that the US created ISIS were cheering on its early terror attacks as the work of a Baathist “Resistance”. ISIS these days is accompanied by top Baathists including General al-Douri, a close Saddam ally. The same outlets claiming that we created ISIS celebrated the “Resistance” campaign against NATO “neo-colonialism” when what they were really celebrating was ISIS.
Putin’s regime has claimed that it is fighting ISIS, but it was supporting Assad back when Syria was a conduit for ISIS to attack Americans. The Baathists in Syria and Iraq had both been Soviet clients and it was the USSR which turned international terrorism into a high art.
The United States has gotten plenty of the blame for supporting Mujahedeen in Afghanistan against the USSR, but the USSR had started the practice much earlier and had signed on to the Red-Green alliance.
http://www.newsweek.com/2015/07/03/isis-george-w-bush-barack-obama-342613.html
ISIS’s precursor, Al-Qaeda in Iraq, emerged in 2004 to resist the American occupation. Led by Abu Musab Zarqawi, a Jordanian, the group consisted of Sunnis, many of them disgruntled former Iraqi soldiers left without paychecks after the Bush administration disbanded the Iraqi army. Using suicide bombers and improvised explosive devices, Zarqawi and his recruits attacked American troops and Shiite mosques in a bid to expel American soldiers, foment a sectarian war and establish an Islamic caliphate in Iraq.
AQI was chump change in Iraq. Bogus rag tag terrorists. It wasn't until Baghdadi took over AQI and moved into Syria, BROKE with AQ and formed ISIS that they "became".
Now here's where they triumphed in Syria because we were waging a proxy war to overthrow Assad and created a mega vacuum. With his head commander being the Chechyn Omar al Shishani ISIS claimed military victory after victory. It was al Shishani that was the key military leader to make them the military powerhouse they are today.
Not the old home boys of Saddam's in Iraq. Not that they are not instrumental in successes but the big prize goes to the Chechyn.
To address Afghanistan you don't need to blame Reagan for supporting the Afghan rebels. That was Jimmy Carter who kicked off that program with the CIA.