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In reply to the discussion: I Support The Actions Described By President Obama Tonight, Ladies And Gentlemen [View all]The Magistrate
(95,264 posts)The weapons were supplied to groups which were hostile to I.S.I.L., and were in part to be used by them against I.S.I.L., in an attempt to oust it from the coalition fighting Assad. I do not doubt some of the weapons wound up in their hands, and not just by capture but by black-market sale and defection. I know for a fact that some elements of the Free Syrian Army ave defected recently to the I.S.I.L., but that was subsequent to the actions described in your article, and not some long-planned scheme, but a reaction to the prestige of victory and the threat of failure in opposition to the emerging champion. But you might as well allege the equipment the U.S, supplied to Iraq represented 'the U.S. supplying I.S.I.S.' because a good portion of it wound up in their hands. You want to blame somebody, blame Prince Bandar, who seems, at least to outsiders, to have lost some prestige among the Saudi clan over his fostering of the I.S.I.L. faction.