We did intervene in the conflict though....by training and supplying jihadists who have now joined ISIS. Clinton is undoubtedly aware of this fact, yet she has the gall to claim that if we had intervened further, we wouldn't have armed jihadists and the FSA would've won. She is a blatant liar and her supporters are either ignorant or in denial at this point.
Wow. You are sinking low. Surely you must be aware that WorldNetDaily and BeforeItsNews are less credible sources than your everyday Murdoch tabloid. The IBT article doesn't say that the U.S. trained ISIS... it says the U.S. trained some Syrian rebels in Jordan. That's no secret. Then it goes on to speculate that "A USA-ISIS tie-up is plausible, considering the fact how the CIA was responsible for the strengthening of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan." So basically their evidence that the U.S. trained ISIS is to point to the CIA activities in Afghanistan 30 years ago, and imply guilt by association. Sorry.
The people who have been calling for a stronger ing U.S. response in Syria for years now have never said all we need to do is train one or two militia group to go into Syria and get ground up. They've always been saying that we need to provide significant arms and enough aid to get the Free Syrian Army the upper hand in the war. With such equipment they would have eradicated ISIS in early 2014. Even without such equipment they dealt ISIS the most severe blow in its history in January and February 2014, driving them out of huge chunks of Syria, even while fighting Assad's forces at the same time. They've also been massacred by ISIS. To continue to conflate these people with ISIS is an insult.
They're fighting a dictator who responded to peaceful protests, remember, by gunning down people in the street, including his own Alawites in 2011, and has since killed 100,000+ of his own people, likely used chemical weapons to gas thousands of children, has systematically used starvation, deprivation of medical supplies, terrorism of the civilian population, barrel bombs, and blockades to compel his people into submission, and to top it all off is aligned with an anti-American bloc of Russia, Hezbollah, and Iran. For years, people such as myself, have not been strong enough in speaking out against this man, for fear of supporting jihadists. But with the rise of ISIS, this has not only become a moral catastrophe for American foreign policy, which if we have a shred of compassion left will be seen as our generation's Rwanda 5 years from now, but have become a strategic and military catastrophe as well. Osama bin Laden's dream is finally true that there is a Caliphate in the middle east.
People like Robert Ford, our ambassador to Syria, have been speaking out on this issue for years, and I and many others owe him an apology. The number of people who still have their heads stuck in the sand is unbelievable.
