Why did US found and create ISIS?

[Anonymous]

Now everyone knows that US government was the one who created and founded ISIS jihadi terrorist organization.

Even Trump said Obama founded it.

But why?

[emeraldsaphire]

The Feds don't like a government. They want to overthrow it, but the US citizens would never support a war in that country, especially if the war would cause a draft. So what do they do? Well it's simple they find a group of crazies in that country who hates the government. Think of a group like the Westboro Baptist Church. So you send in agents to join. You show them propaganda, you give them weapons, you fund them, you advertise them, you train them. And before you know it you have a small militia that can fight your wars for you.

Ok, so jump 20 years. You no longer need that group. So you stop funding them, you send home your guys and maybe you even help the current government fight them. Well now you have a group of crazies with weapons and US trained officers who are skilled with gorilla warfare.

That group might just become an organized crime syndicate for a few years until they fizzle out, or they might become terrorists, or in a worst case scenario that attempt to create a caliphate.

This is an awful idea, the Romans did similar stuff and look what happened to them. Sadly people rarely learn from history.

[Syntosi]

Because USA is a super power and part of that includes the need to exert control over important parts of the world. So you really only have 3 choices here. Either you send in your army, economically dominate them or make sure the ones in charge do as you want. Since USA is less inclined to send their troops these days, and USA is a MILITARY super power so less inclined to try use economic means that just leaves manipulation left.

USA has been financing, training and supplying different groups depending on what was in USAs best interest at the time. This does not mean that these groups were allies with USA, but rather that the group was trying to do something that USA approved of, such as destroying another group or country or kick out other national influences such as Russian supported groups.

You can argue how effective this is or how good USA is at playing these games but that is at least the idea behind it.

[talentedclock]

You think that's crazy, wait until you find out the US created the Taliban and helped Osama Bin Laden.

All major powers do this thing where they fund, train, install puppet leaders, create rebel groups, and provoke fighting between smaller powers as proxies to accomplish their own objectives. The US does it, the Soviet Union did it, Russia does it, China does it.

Hell, look back in history. The United States received a lot of support from France during the revolutionary war as a way to weaken Britain and help further France's objectives. It just backfired because a few years later, French revolutionaries were inspired by America's revolution and killed all their monarchs.

[Astarlessnightsky]

ISIS i don't know if thats true.

But the US funded and supplied weapons, training and hatred to the taliban because the Taliban also fought the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Basically they found out both the Republicans and the Taliban hated the Soviets and Women and so they made a deal based on these common beliefs.

And so the CIA build up the Taliban from a random group of angry old men to well armed, well trained group of hatefull young and old men.

And maybe with ISIS it was something similiar.

[jshm2]

The same reason police and FBI let some criminals run free and grow, while clamping down on others.

They have to keep themselves in a job and "manage" their resources.

The CIA is similar in its funding for terrorists and cartels.

[DryGermanGuy]

That's the same Trump who is searching for Barrack Hussein Obama's birth certificate from Kenya for the last ten years, right? Do you get that all of that is bullshit, now?

[oldpigg]

The truth is that the Islamic State was the most powerful subversive group in history, until the United States and Russia came along to ruin everything.

[DrPepper12]

Just here to see if you were for real or metaphorical.

[Twalli]

You trust Trump? Also learn what jihad actually means.