Do you think the US foreign policy establishment are in the cahoots with the Islamic State?

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11. I mean the Pentagon, defense contractors, think tanks who support the defense industry,

manufacturers--anyone who profits from an endless threat. When the ISIS thing first blew up, Kerry said we should be able to take them out pretty well in three years. Less than a year later, the Joint Chiefs declared that taking out ISIS would be a "generational struggle". Someone got their way. It wasn't Kerry. The fight against ISIS has been halfway, bumbling, half hearted, through all of this year. It started out strong, last summer and fall, and then withered. Plans were abandoned to retake Mosul. We didn't help with airstrikes or backup when ISIS took Ramadi. We let the train and equip program for rebels flop. We weren't taking out fuel trucks or oil infrastructure anymore, since last fall. We cut back on airstrikes in Northern Syria in support of Kurds, until very recently. So the half-hearted, deliberately ineffective air war turned into calls for a ground war, and now we're spinning one up. Funny how that works.