Read this article in full. The irony is too much to handle. Every time the US intervenes in foreign affairs the world gets less safe. I am sick and tired of hearing conservatives claim the world gets safer when the US is the world's policemen. I don't believe this to be a lie most of the time but I do think people are simply mis or uninformed. Here is a few paragraphs backstory on the CIA creation of ISIS.
"How Military Central Planning Unwittingly Created ISIS
The final irony of the MOAB bombing? ISIS. Its story begins with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who literally followed US troops into Iraq after their invasion in March of 2003. Taking full advantage of the US invasion's destruction of Iraq's social order, by August Zarqawi had not only set up Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (JTJ) in Iraq but bombed the Jordanian embassy, Canal Hotel, and Shi'ite Imam Ali Mosque, killing a combined 125 people and maiming/injuring countless others.
In October of the following year, JTJ changed its name to Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). This made sense since Zarqawi was a protégé/frenemy of former US ally and al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden. Two years later, in October of 2006, AQI became the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI). In August of 2011, ISI helped form the al-Nusra Front in Syria. Finally, in April of 2013, al-Nusra and ISI combined into the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Thus ISIS was born, and scooping up US weapons, vehicles, and millions of dollars in CIA cash in attacks, robberies, and burglaries around Iraq, it became one of the most well-armed and financed terrorist organizations in the world.
So here's the gist of MOAB: the US government dropped a $170,000 big bomb on dirt poor, destitute Afghanistan on militants living in a cave complex that it had originally helped construct to kill a tiny portion of a small, non-indigenous terrorist group that it had helped create 3,000 miles away in perhaps its greatest military blunder 14 years ago. And to top it all off, this pointless bombing was, according to US President Donald Trump, a rousing "successful job."
Kafka would be proud."
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