In comments during an interview with 60 Minutes, President Obama conceded that the US had widely underestimated ISIS, and what was happening among Islamist factions in Eastern Syria in general.
Obama went on to label Syria the “ground zero for jihadists around the world,” saying they were using the ungoverned portions of Syria to “reconstitute themselves and take advantage of that chaos.”
That’s a dramatic understatement, of course. ISIS and other factions didn’t simply go to Syria because the war made parts of the nation “ungoverned.” Rather, the jihadists went to Syria to join a rebellion the Obama Administration was loudly backing and bankrolling.
Awash in US weapons and using the Syrian war as a recruiting tool, ISIS quickly rose from its status as al-Qaeda of Iraq (AQI) into a regional power and, indeed, a de facto state.
Administration officials, like deputy national security adviser Tony Blinken, insist that the US war against ISIS won’t end up like another Iraq. So far, it’s shaping up to be much, much worse.
That’s because after the US policy of backing Syrian rebels turned ISIS into the powerful movement it is today, the announcement of the US air war against ISIS seems to be bringing the group to even greater heights, with not only Syria, but now a second war with America being used as a powerful recruitment tool which ISIS can use both to recruit locals, and to recruit other jihadist factions who simply can’t stand up to the US on their own.
The president has finally admitted to underestimating ISIS, but seems no closer to understanding the source of the threat, or to changing US policy in such a way that they’re not making ISIS all the stronger.
Everyone should check out The War Nerd´s take on the fake excuse for invading Syria and make way for pipelines, "ISIS":
http://pando.com/2014/09/28/the-war-nerd-lets-put…
Obama omitted the punchline: Mission Accomplished!
This is total horse sheeeeeeit talk, Iraq dideng hade anything to do with USG and its phony allies wanting to change the legitimate syrian government. on the contrary is was and still is USG and its phony allies as SAUDI Arabia/Qatar and UAE whom are in such business.
ISIS and all,other jihadists are either created by CIA or Johan McCain, Syria never was a ground ziro or breathing ground fir these Saudis and Qatari barbarians unti they were sent to Syria via Turkey. These jihadists are the leftovers from Afghanistan, the Wahhabis and Iraq war created by USG/EU and English warmongering systems as Swedish Neo fascism government and that Ratt Mussen in Denmark.
They (US and western powers) will never win this war by bombing and military destruction. That's an obsolete concept that no longer works in the 21 st century. There is a saying "if you can't beat them, join them" . By joining them you may have chance to influence them and perhaps to some degree control them. But of course there is no money in it.
Hope so.
I would agree If you are saying that the US should join the "boots on the ground" that are already in Syria and fighting the takfiri terrorists for three years (or for over thirty five years, counting from the US-supported Muslim Brotherhood rebellion of the 1980s), the Syrian Arab Army. But I fear that once the danger of ISIS has been deemed defeated, that the undefeated guns of the "moderate" takfiri and its US/Israeli/Gulf monarchies air force will once again be turned fully on the National Progressive Front, the Ba'th Party and the good people of Syria. The result will be worse than post-2003 Iraq and vastly worse than post-Qaddhafi Libya…unless we stop it.
Ground Zero may be pivoting to China – quite a bit to be found online re the characters at this link –
Office opposes foreign interference in HK http://www.chinadailyasia.com/hknews/2014-06/20/c…
They (US and western powers) will never win this war by bombing and military destruction. That's an obsolete concept that no longer works in the 21 st century. There is a saying "if you can't beat them join them" . By joining them you may hopefully have some influence on them and change the way they are thinking.
One question for the POTUS, who the hall made Syria the Ground Zero for Jihadists? Its the US, Nato, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. When will we see ultimatums leveled against Washington, Nato, Riyadh and Abu-Dhabi?
Yea, yea…that's what they said about Iraq in 2002 and Afghanistan on 2001. same lies, same bullcrap. The war on terror is cover for their agenda. Read Zbignew Brezinski's book The Grand Chessboard to see exactly what that agenda is
And as for "…decisive importance to America's global primacy and to America's historical legacy…" the gnomes should not have left that to ignorant amateurs to manage. The historical legacy is being written now and it's not pretty – and far from enabling global primacy as described in the book.
Interesting that Zbiggy hardly mentions Israel throughout the entire book at all – 2 references and those only in passing.
Syria regime change, then on to the prize…Iran! For Israel and SA.
The stupid fools in Washington picked the wrong people to send all this war material to. Now they're hollerin' about how ISIS is out to get us with the stuff that we sent 'em! Are they any adults left in Washington?