Why did the USA fund ISIS? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by fire86743@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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With the Mujahideen (Taliban and al-Qaeda), it was obvious: attack the Soviets.

But why ISIS? When they overthrew Saddam, why would they fund a group that would attack their own puppet government?

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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 35 points 6 months ago

As I understand it ISIS isn't actually a single militant group, it's a collection of independent militant groups that all call themselves ISIS.

So the US doesn't need to fund every ISIS cell, in fact some of them it might legitimately fight, it just funds the ones that attack enemies.

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