Aleppo now freed from the rebels!

[Dill]

(12-14-2016, 03:11 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: It's a civil war. The rebels are trying to overthrow Assad.  At least some of the Syrian rebels are fighting ISIS. ISIS is fighting Iraq, the Kurds, the Syrian Rebels, and anyone else who would interfere with their Sunni caliphate. Combating Assad and ISIS is why the US is supporting some of the Syrian rebel groups. We also support the Kurds to fight ISIS. The Kurds are fighting the Turks who are our NATO allies. Assad tolerates ISIS to a degree because they are combating the rebels which hope to over throw him. Iran is supporting ISIS, Assad, and the anti-Sunni Iraqi government to increase their influence in the region. Russia is supporting Assad so it doesn't create a post -Assad power vacuum ala post-Saddam Iraq for their interest in the region. Saudi Arabia has supported the rebels and ISIS to overthrow Assad and decrease Iran's influence. We support Saudi Arabia which means we are indirectly supporting ISIS which we are simultaneously trying to destroy in a Sunni-Shia proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. 

It sounds confusing, but it isn't even that simple. It's one of the great blunders.

I didn't even mention Isreal. LOL

. . . and Al Nusra.

Why do you say Iran is supporting ISIS? That confuses the statement about a Sunni-Shia proxy war over ISIS.