12-14-2016, 12:20 PM
(12-13-2016, 10:35 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: So, then why were the Americans, under the Obama administration supplying weaponry to the rebel factions? Seems to me that this is another example of a Nation that was undergoing turmoil, that did not need Western interference. We all saw how things came unglued when we got into the whole Iraq deal...
Supposedly the idea was to overthrow Assad, install a new government, and then have that government turn and fight ISIS. Geographically the rebels are caught between Assad and ISIS, so funding them in a failed attempt to overthrow Assad effectively stopped both groups from going after ISIS. There are even more strange happenings going on with Turkey fighting with the YPG and other Kurdish forces that are anti-ISIS but also have a rocky relationship with Turkey. Had all of the anti-ISIS parties actually fought against their common enemy rather than fighting against each other, the conflict may have looked drastically different.
