Speculation takes a back seat.
…But it’s one thing to speculate; it’s something entirely different to have hard proof.
And while speculation was rife that just like the CIA-funded al Qaeda had been used as a facade by the US to achieve its own geopolitical and national interests over the past two decades, so ISIS was nothing more than al Qaeda 2.0, there was no actual evidence of just this.
That may all have changed now when a declassified secret US government document obtained by the public interest law firm, Judicial Watch, shows that Western governments deliberately allied with al-Qaeda and other Islamist extremist groups to topple Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad.
According to investigative reporter Nafeez Ahmed in Medium, the “leaked document reveals that in coordination with the Gulf states and Turkey, the West intentionally sponsored violent Islamist groups to destabilize Assad, despite anticipating that doing so could lead to the emergence of an ‘Islamic State’ in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
According to the newly declassified US document, the Pentagon foresaw the likely rise of the ‘Islamic State’ as a direct consequence of the strategy, but described this outcome as a strategic opportunity to “isolate the Syrian regime.”…
Remember this week to call your Senators office to encourage a NO vote on extending the Patriot Act. Having US suffering their spying and political interference while they are busy creating our enemies is a crime against the American People as proscribed by our Constitution and it must be stopped.
More IS history:
http://truthinmedia.com/truth-in-media-the-origin-of-isis/
And if you think there are parts of the Ukraine story you missed this might fill in some gaps
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2015/03/05/isis-in-ukraine/
Let me be clear. I remember watching Kruschev on television doing his shoe banging UN tour. During that tour he bragged Russia will defeat US from within. I haven’t liked Russia since then and I sure don’t trust them now.
What I’m pi$$ed about is I think these are the times that will prove Kruschev wasn’t lying.