Talk about strange bedfellows...
We have been trying to overthrow Assad, "covertly" up until this year, but overtly now that Obama wants $500 million in arms and training for the "good" rebels. (Let's not even mention how the now strategically failed rebellion, in which we had a hand, created the breathing space for ISIS and the other "bad" rebels, and let's not even mention how ISIS originally formed as Al Qaeda in Iraq in response to our invasion and occuption.) Now, at the same time, both the Syrian and the US air forces are bombing ISIS targets.
And then there's the Kurds. We like the "good" Kurds in Iraq, but we don't like the "bad" ("terrorist"
Kurds in Turkey (PKK) or Syria (YPG). But it was the "bad" Kurds who just helped the Yazidis flee over the mountain and into Kurdish Syria. They probably waved to our special forces guys.
There's so many levels of strange bedfellows to the Middle East these days the mind boggles.
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