8/22/2014

Good ISIS/Bad ISIS - US-Inspired Chaos in The Levant

The Good ISIS/Bad ISIS narrative being spun by the western securocrats is as mad and inaccurate as the WMD spin of the Iraq Invasion days.
How The US Helped ISIS Grow Into a Monster | Mother Jones

There are extraordinary elements in the present US policy in Iraq and Syria that are attracting surprisingly little attention. In Iraq, the US is carrying out air strikes and sending in advisers and trainers to help beat back the advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (better known as ISIS) on the Kurdish capital, Erbil. The US would presumably do the same if ISIS surrounds or attacks Baghdad. But in Syria, Washington's policy is the exact opposite: there the main opponent of ISIS is the Syrian government and the Syrian Kurds in their northern enclaves. Both are under attack from ISIS, which has taken about a third of the country, including most of its oil and gas production facilities. MORE

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