| > It’s how Islamic State managed to establish themselves in the first place. No that was widely credited to the power vacuum created by the United States of America when they publicly hanged the President of Iraq for all the Muslim world to see. [1][2][3] Serious error of judgement by White House royalty trying to make their ancestors proud. The US gave the Taliban a decade of training, funding and weapons.[4][5][6][7] They gave ISIS the perfect environment for them to grow big and everyone knows it. It doesn't matter what business you are in, everyone is always trying to create more work for themselves, the military and intelligence services are no exception. [1] https://www.csis.org/analysis/americas-failed-strategy-middl... [2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/11/23/... [3] https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/iraqs-power-vacuum-cou... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone > described as the "biggest bequest to any Third World insurgency." [5] https://theintercept.com/2019/08/21/taliban-peace-talks-afgh... [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA%E2%80%93al-Qaeda_controver... [7] https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/who... |