US Begins Selling Syria Intervention Using ISIS PretextTony Cartalucci In less than 24 hours, the New York Times would report in its article, U.S. General Says Raiding Syria Is Key to Halting ISIS, that: This is an organization that has an apocalyptic end-of-days strategic vision that will eventually have to be defeated, said the chairman, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, in his most expansive public remarks on the crisis since American airstrikes began in Iraq. Can they be defeated without addressing that part of the organization that resides in Syria? The answer is no. The NYT would also report: And finally, the NYT would claim: In reality, US special forces and other Western operatives have been inside and operating in Syria for years. The only missing ingredient the US seeks to justify is direct, open military intervention including airstrikes on Syrian territory. US Created ISIS As Pretext for Military Intervention 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 Irans very doorstep. Veteran journalists and Pulitzer Prize-winner Seymour Hersh noted in his prophetic 2007 New Yorker article, The Redirection Is the Administrations new policy benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism? that (emphasis added): Thesupport to these sectarian extremist mercenaries became much more apparent after 2011, with monthly admissions published in the pages of the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other prominent newspapers across the West of the US CIA arming and funding terrorists along the Syrian-Turkish border for years in the very areas now clearly serving as safe havens and conduits for ISIS. The United States has intentionally created regional genocide and now proposes direct military intervention across multiple national borders as the solution an arsonist left to fight fires of their own creation. Madness Enabled by Profound Public Ignorance The utter madness of US policy in the Middle East, and indeed around the world, is enabled by both public ignorance and apathy. It enables US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to stand in front of the world and shamelessly claim: No rational, plausible explanation has accounted for how ISIS has been able to receive yet more funding, weapons, and support than moderates supposedly backed by the collective resources of the US, Europe, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. It is clear that there were never any moderates to begin with, and that the goal was to create and utilize terrorist hordes like ISIS as a pretext for violently reordering the Middle East. And even at face value, it should be evident to even the most uninformed, that US meddling in the Middle East has led directly to the regional chaos now unfolding and that the last possible option should be for the US to continue meddling. Unfortunately, with a Democrat in office, many Americans, and indeed liberals around the world, have regressed from anti-war sentiments to cognitive dissonance to explain why their elected representatives are meddling militarily in a part of the world they had protested for years to end Americas involvement in. Tony Cartaluccis articles have appeared on many alternative media websites, including his own at Land Destroyer Report, Alternative Thai News Network and LocalOrg. Read other contributed articles by Tony Cartalucci here. 