Former US general: we created ISIS with the finance of our allies

Wesley Clark, former US general who served as commandant in chief of the NATO allied forces, said in an interview with CNN that the US created ISIL/ ISIS with the finance of its allies to make a proxy war against Lebanese resistance movement Hizbollah, informs RT Actualidad.

In the interview, he remarked that if one wants to defeat Hizbolla, they need fundamentalists who are ready to fight until death, and this is how the U.S. created ISIS.

Mr. Clark’s remarks are not new to many Middle East analysts or politicians. US Sunni allies hae frequently been accused of financing, arming, and even training ISIS.

Last summer, a major Turkish opposition figure announced he owns evidence showing that Turkey, a major US key ally in the region, financed and trained ISIS fighters. The claim was even corroborated by Mr. Recep Tayip Ordugan himself who never hid his unconditional support for the ISIS-led Syrian insurgency against the Assad regime. He was once quoted saying that Al-Assad is more dangerous than ISIS.

In 2012, Syrian state media broadcast testimonies of ISIS fighters saying they entered Syria via Turkey and affirmed that the Turkish police facilitated their entry.

Similarly, TV5 Monde, a French TV, realised a documentary in which it portrays the journey of a French couple to Syria, where they want to join ISIS. In the documentary, their journey was easier than easy. No Turkish police seemed to intend to hamper their sacred journey.

Saudi Arabia, another US key ally, which has always been receiving its daily share of US praise, never hesitated to show its secret love affair with ISIS. When the radical group took over key Iraqi cities, the Saudi royal family praised the move. And it’s no surprise that the Saudies and the US politicians should support ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Saudi Arabia and the US have a common enemy called Iran, and the latter relies on the Iraqi and Syrian regimes as key allies. So, using ISIS to fight these two Iranian allies is like fighting Iran itself.

Last spring, Turkey used its artillery to cover an ISIS retreat near its borders with Israel after the Syrian army pushed them to Turkey. In the cover mission, the Turkish artillery downed a Syrian jet. And so did Israel when it frequently attacked Syrian regime forces when they were getting the thing out of ISIS.

Benjamin Netanyahu visited Syrian opposition (translated ISIS) fighters who were being treated in Israeli hospitals after they were wounded in fights near the Golan border.

Even Obama’s support to the Syrian (translated ISIS) rebellion tells much.