Ever wonder where ISIS came from when you never heard a thing about this terrorist group until about a year ago?
Thanks to a lawsuit by Judicial Watch, a 2012 Defense Intelligence Agency assessment has been released (in heavily redacted form) that might answer how ISIS became so strong, so fast, and managed to form their Islamic State so quickly.
The report leaked online — ironically enough — the Sunday before Memorial Day in the United States.
In short, the report revealed the US Government did with its foreign policy what it always does — stick its nose into other people’s business and cause maximum blowback.
So let’s see how the Obama led US Gov helped create ISIS …
The US Government’s Foreign Policy …
It’s no secret (or maybe it is to most people?) that the US Gov has been involved in covert regime change operations since the late 40’s (after the US became the world’s leading superpower at the end of WWII).
Almost immediately, they started meddling in the Middle East, which is — at least partially — to blame for that region being in complete chaos.
This, by the way, is not at all speculation …
Years after these events take place, the Government quietly admits to it in some form or someone leaks the story. The mainstream media ignores the revelations and the American people never look into it.
It appears the rise of ISIS is another example of the US Government’s mistakes. Here’s the story …
Obama wanted regime change in Syria …
In short, Obama wanted Syria’s president Bashir al-Assad gone.
Speculation abounds as to why, but many believe it’s because Assad refused to sign an agreement with Qatar to let an energy pipeline run north to supply much of Europe and bypass Russia. Assad’s rationale for opposing it was “to protect the interests of [his] Russian ally, which is Europe’s top supplier of natural gas.”
Obviously, the energy in the Middle East — gas and oil — is super valuable and the US wants to be in control of it (not Russia).
So Obama wanted Assad gone …
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.”
In other words, the people in Washington thought that they could play chess with the Middle East and that all the islamic world were pawns they could move around on a board to achieve their end goals.
I guess it didn’t work out the way they planned …
Now, they’ve gotten so strong so fast, we have ISIS attacks in Texas, and they’ve practically taken over Iraq. In short, it seems the US Gov helped create a monster (and it got very out of control).
The Mainstream Media will never talk about this …
As you know, the mainstream media is basically the propaganda machine of the US Government.
From LevantReport.com …
“Americans are, on the whole, unaware of the true nature of the Syrian opposition (and Libyan opposition before) and the Arab Spring in general, because American media, from NBC to CNN to FOX to major and local papers, have uncritically played the part of propaganda tool for the rebel opposition and their advocates in Western governments. Ordinary Americans are kept in ignorance, exposed only to the moralistic clichés and sound bites of self-proclaimed experts and reporters who have typically never spent time in the Middle East, who don’t speak Arabic, or who have never engaged in a serious study of Mid-East history. Those who fit such basic qualifications are excluded from mainstream coverage as real analysis threatens to expose the false narrative.”
In short, whatever the Gov wants to accomplish, the mainstream media backs up. They paint one side as “bad” and the other “good” and then report stories in that light.
They try to build support for wars and US interventions this way. There was major pushback against Obama in 2013 when he wanted to get the American people behind a Syrian war — so he just did what he wanted to do covertly.
Russia Times picked up the story …
Surprisingly (or maybe not?) you can often get more unbiased reporting on world events from foreign news sites.
And you can see some screen grabs from their live report here from Russia Times …
and here …
Is this credible?
There are already people claiming this report is just “clickbait” and doesn’t prove anything.
I’d say the evidence is quite damning at this point …
And like I said, this is business as usual for the US Government.
In short, if you study history, you will see that this is quite common behavior for the US Government. The US Govt has been acting like the British Empire ever since the balance of power shifted from Britain to the US after WWII.
Let me give you the “easy button” way to understand how US foreign policy works — and how the mainstream media supports them …
Simply watch Rambo III …
History lesson …
The US Government gave money, support, and American lives to support Stalin during World War II — in Stalin’s fight against Hitler.
This allowed Stalin and Russia to make it out of the war alive and more powerful than ever …
Obviously, this was a case of stupidity (Stalin killed 53 million more people than Hitler, arguably making him more evil than Hitler) and it directly led to the Cold War that started almost immediately after WWII and continued for the next 45 years …
That meant for 45 years the US Gov had a policy of supporting anyone who claimed to be anti-communist.
This included tons of “Islamic extremists” in the Middle East — most notably the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. That’s the story that you see play out in Rambo III.
Back then they were called freedom fighters. Then after communism failed (it crumbled under its own weight, because communism doesn’t work, not because of anything the US Gov did) these freedom fighters (and others in the Middle East) became “terrorists” that needed to be stopped.
In other words, this is nothing new.
The US has a history of supporting, arming, training and giving tax payer dollars to dictators and/or rebel groups around the world — trying to play the world like a game of chess — and then US officials are surprised when it blows back in American faces.