The US has made some horrific decisions when arming counter-insurgents…..for instance back in the 80’s AQ was our friend and we armed them and gave them cash in their fight against the Russians……then AQ brought down the Towers in NYC….
We have 25+ years of bad decisions when dealing with terrorists……
U.S. Presidents Jimmy Carter[1] and Ronald Reagan[2] aligned the U.S. with jihadists in Afghanistan against Russia and later gave weapons to Salafi-jihadis allied with Osama Bin Laden[3]. Less than 20 years later, Al Qaeda brought down the World Trade Center and attacked the Pentagon. Presently the U.S. is bogged down in Syria and continues to make the foreign policy mistake of playing “Good Jihadi-Bad Jihadi.”
https://divergentoptions.org/2018/01/01/playing-good-jihadi-bad-jihadi/
Our foreign policy needs to take a good look at our past record….not something that could be called a success….and that will not happen until we have a new president and then the change will be iffy at best…..as long as the M-IC is in charge we will continue down the road that we began all those years ago.
The idea that you can manipulate terrorist groups, or revolutionary factions is flawed. There is little evidence of it ever being successful in the long term.
Best wishes, Pete.
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