Seymour Hersh: US knowingly armed ISIS

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47. Hersh's claims are born out by history of American foreign policy priorities,

which is to subvert sovereignty and self-determination of states when that goes against the interests of American and western business class or is considered a threat to its hegemonic power.
Arming, funding, and training of militant forces with converging interests is nothing new to the US military apparatus. And at the moment, those in the Pentagon leaking these stories just might be trying to throw Obama under the bus. Because as far as I can tell, they've been on board all along, but now they're seeing it's an utter clusterfuck. And perhaps they figured blaming Obama gives them a way out of this.
Also, I wouldn't say that Obama armed ISIS per se. He armed those forces that later morphed into the current form of ISIS because there had been a fallout from invasion of Iraq, which is Saddam Hussein's generals who know what they are doing in the battlefield; who are pissed as fuck because their families and bretherens have been laid off, discriminated and marginalized by US puppets. So they have nationalist agenda on their part to take back their territories by force, which is helped greatly by crazy people just over the border in Syria awash with Saudi and Gulf monarchies' money and weapons they were handed over by US.
I do understand that these claims have a danger to be co-opted by RW in a very self-serving manner because not only do they so conveniently leave out republicans' fault in all of this, but also they do promote this nonsense that Obama is basically an alien set out to destroy America, to which I say Obama has been doing what just about every other American president has done to varying degrees.
But the stakes happen to be higher than ever because it really is a clusterfuck attributable not only to Obama, but many other predecessors before him, and our traditional allies including Saudis of course, and NATO member countries such as Turkey, and France and England as well, the two countries that had been goading for the bombing campaign in Libya, for instance.