I think NATO funds, creates, hypes and sheppards enemies of their own design to justify perpetual war. During the cold war, Russia was built up as this frothing aggressor bent on world domination, when it wasn't. Their economic and military capabilities were grossly overstated (besides nuclear capacity). Al Queda was funded and trained by American and British intelligence to combat the Soviets in Afghanistan (Mujahedeen). Osama Bin Laden was originally a CIA asset (Tim Osman). Saddam, backed by America. The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait (Gulf War#1) was actually greenlighted by the American ambassador to Iraq, at the time, which was a setup. Now, with ISIS, they originally fought in Libya supported by NATO to overthrow Gadaffi. They were the "Libyan rebels" we kept hearing about. They plundered much of the Libyan military cache, including 20,000 Russian shoulder fired SA-7 anti-aircraft missiles, and brought the "crusade" up to Syria, where again, NATO happily equipped them with American-made MPAD missiles and anti-tank missiles. After all, they were "rebels fighting that evil Assad". And still do to this day. And whoops, now they're slaughtering everyone they can get their hands on, so media has taken notice. Not such a cuddly little group of freedom fighters, after all?
Truth be told, the reason why Obama and the Pentagon have no official strategy on ISIS is because they don't want to create a strategy
against ISIS.
They want ISIS to flourish. Yes, flourish. The whole point that eludes everyone is that Oceania needs a credible threat to justify perpetual war. In this case, ISIS is a new credible threat, and Obama and the military industrial complex would much rather keep this threat alive and well, rather then snuff it out in a few short weeks, with crippling air strikes.
Think about it guys. The border is wide open. ISIS are inside the United States. ISIS was allowed to plunder 20,000 shoulder fired missiles from Gaddafis arsenal. ISIS was allowed to take over and control 6 oil fields in Syria and Iraq to fund their operation. ISIS was equipped with hundreds of MPADS and anti-tank missiles, from the US GOVERNMENT. This is unheard of. ISIS is our new Emmanual Goldstein. Bin Laden, the Taliban and Saddam are long gone. We need a new enemy to keep this war going, and we found one - Al Queda 2.0 (ISIS). So lets not stop the party too soon.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/0...-likely-fallen-into-isis-hands-officials-say/
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/179019#.VAahzbwg854
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/6/flow-of-anti-aircraft-missiles-to-syria-could-land/?page=all
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/18/business/al-khatteeb-isis-oil-iraq/
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182482#.VAakC7H65eM
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/0...-global-catastrophe-if-unchecked-experts-say/