ISIS is entirely a creation of the United States’ behavior in Iraq.
When the U.S. first invaded Iraq, it blew the country apart. By
destroying the existing government, toppling Saddam Hussein, and
destroying the infrastructure, the U.S. left behind a power vacuum that
would never have existed under Hussein.
The impact caused by the actions of the United States is a historical
fact that media just won’t discuss.
This has to do with U.S. action in the region, which destroyed the
infrastructure, which destroyed Iraq society, which destroyed the Iraqi
government, while there were a lot of people who weren’t “as happy as
larks” while living under Saddam Hussein, they also weren’t at odds with
Hussein in the same way they were with the government established by
the U.S.
The militant group ISIS was formed as a small insurgent group in Iraq in
2006. While they tried to create problems for the U.S. military, they
had no money and no real ability to recruit.
It wasn’t until 2009 that ISIS shifted its focus from Iraq, where it was
largely unsuccessful in developing a foothold, and focused on the civil
war in Syria.
While in Syria, ISIS still struggled to gain a foothold. This is
attributed to the fact that two larger groups fighting against President
Bashar al-Assad were overpowering them: al-Nusra Front – or al-Qaeda –
and the Free Syrian Army.
Then, came a pivotal moment that most Americans aren’t even aware of. In
June 2013, a Northern General for the Free Syrian Army spoke out on Al
Jazeera Qatar and stated that if international forces did not send
weapons, the rebels attempting to overthrow Syrian president Bashar
al-Assad would lose their war within a month.
The U.S. was covertly funding Syrian rebels.
Although Obama acted as if
he was proceeding with caution, politicians such as Senator John McCain
demanded action.
Within a matter of weeks of the Syrian general making his plea for
international help, the U.S., the Saudis, Jordan, Qatar, Turkey and
Israel began providing weapons, training and money to so-called rebel
groups like the Free Syrian Army.
In September 2013, American media outlets began reporting that weapons
were being given to Syrian rebels. CNN reported that while the weapons
are not “American-made,” they were “funded and organized by the CIA.”
However, things began to fall apart when less than one year after the
U.S. supplied Syrian “freedom fighters” with weapons, those weapons
ended up in the hands of ISIS fighters.
Those ISIS fighters came from the group McCain insisted would help the
U.S. overthrow Assad: the Free Syrian Army. The army was not only
sending the Islamic State weapons, it was also sending them fighters.
It wasn’t until June 2014 that ISIS went from being a “no-name group in
Syria” to a group that was “heavily armed and trained by U.S. and
Coalition Special Forces.”
This revitalized group made a dramatic
entrance by crossing back over the Syrian border into Iraq and capturing
Mosul and much of the northern part of the country.
One of the most important facts that mainstream media ignores time and
time again is that ISIS was able to grow so fast, because of all the
U.S. military equipment they were able to seize – equipment that the US
military left in Iraq.
Truckloads of Humvees, tanks and weaponry that
instead of taking or destroying, the U.S. government simply decided to
leave behind.
However, even when the U.S. government became aware that ISIS fighters
were capturing U.S. equipment, it did nothing.
The lack of action
attributed to the fact that ISIS fighters were taking the equipment back
into Syria to continue fighting Assad, which was what the U.S.
government wanted.
How is it that the United States, with all of its intelligence
capabilities, didn’t know this threat was coming? How many billions did
the US spend, maybe a hundred billion on total intelligence community
budge over the year? How did they have no idea?”
The U.S. did know who ISIS was, but the so-called Islamic State was
doing what the Obama administration wanted.
The ISIS fighters continued to do what the Obama administration wanted,
and in late summer 2014, they were labeled the new boogeyman in the war
on terror.
Over the past few months, the U.S. government, who acted like they had
never even heard of ISIS, suddenly, with the help of media has turned
the Islamic State into the new focus of the war on terror. Now, as ISIS
has continued its rise, recruitment is exploding and the group is
becoming stunningly wealthy.
ISIS makes $2 million a day off of selling oil, and the United States’
response, of “undercutting the competition” by blowing up oil fields
makes no sense. Why is the U.S., which is known for sanctioning anything
that moves, when it’s angry, is not placing sanctions on the banks or
the oil companies that are involved?
In addition to those questions, Americans should also be asking, Why is
the U.S. sending $500 million to the Free Syrian Army to fight ISIS when
the FSA is one of the biggest suppliers of fighters and weapons to
ISIS? and Why is the US sending new and more powerful weapons to the FSA
like anti-aircraft missiles – weapons that we know will be in the hands
of ISIS?
The mainstream media will say that ISIS is the “creation of American
inaction,” the reality is that they are the “product of direct action.”
This direct action started with “the action of creating a power vacuum
in Iraq” and manifested into the “arming violent Jihadist, hoping they
would overthrow a leader in a neighboring Middle Eastern country.”
The U.S. government is a victim of its own insane policies, due to the
fact that it is very good at blowing things up, but really bad at
putting them back together.
Thanks to HBH91
