AlphDoti wrote:@simon, do you mean this guy is working for McCain?
The US trained the Syrian rebel fighters in Jordan and armed them to fight Pres. Assad of Syria.
Some of the rebels on returning to Syria chose to fight their own jihad to establish the so-called Islamic Caliphate.
That is as far as US involvement went with ISIL then. The conspiracy theories also should end here.
The IS group leadership is intelligent in acquiring Western military training through the Syria channel or via former Saddam Hussein Sunni Republican Guards and seizing better weapons abandoned by fleeing Iraqi forces. These weapons were then taken over into a 'safer' Syria to the ISIL HQ Raqqa.
This is no different from what happened when the US armed and funded the Mujahideen to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan just for these Taliban to turn on their former masters on 'defeating' the Soviets.