Originally Posted by
KalashniKEV
ISIS is trained by the CIA clandestine service, or was.
There was a 7 week course in Qatar for pre-screened "FSA Fighters only."
One of the Syria based VICE reports had an interview with a fighter who received the training. He had a library of the Arabic FMs we used on MiTTs plus a duffel bag of gear- he pulled out a nice, new, USGI lensatic compass from the bag.
The problem with that approach is that Jabhat-al-Nusra, FSA, ISIS, and other groups all have interlocking memberships.
We should be doing everything we can to support the secular, suit wearing people in the region- up to and including re-issuing new chemical weapons so we can wag a finger at Asad when he actually uses them to save the world.
Fighting against Saddam made no sense.... ever.
Fight against Qaddafi in 2013 made no sense.
Fighting against al Asad is completely insane.
(Unless you're trying to justify a robust, overt American presence on the ground in those places)