ingliz wrote:@litwin
ISIS was an al-Qaeda splinter group and HTS broke away from ISIS. Ideologically, there's not much to choose between them.
Was the West covertly supporting the head-choppers then? Obama gave the 'moderates' (ISIS) $500 million, training, and weapons in 2014.
If not and it was all down to a CIA cock-up, why are they supporting them now?
The rebels are not pretending to be something they are not today.
I wasn't aware of the west or Turkey supporting ISIS or Nusra. My understanding was that the groups they supported were Muslim Brotherhood aligned. It was Saudi and Israel that supported Al Qaeda and the Islamic State.
I don't think that Osama's organisation and Al Qaeda in Iraq were ever really united organisatioanlly or ideologically. Its my belief that the Nazis would have been quite different if Hitler had, had a Jewish mother. Osama had an Alawite mother, he wanted to convert the Shia, not genocide them. Most Liberals are stupid, ignorant and narcissistic, Al Qaeda as a large Leninist type organisation was always something of a myth invented to tell stories to make liberals feel better.