US Begins Selling “Syria Intervention” Using ISIS Pretext | Global Research
It was the United States itself that intentionally created ISIS,
beginning as early as 2007 for the expressed purpose of overthrowing the
government of Syria and confronting pro-Iranian forces across the
Middle East from Lebanon to Iran’s very doorstep. Veteran journalists
and Pulitzer Prize-winner Seymour Hersh noted in his prophetic 2007 New
Yorker article, “The Redirection Is the Administration’s new policy
benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism?” that (emphasis added):
"To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush
Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in
the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated with
Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations
that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is
backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations
aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has
been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant
vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda."
