As Iraq Burns, US Plans $500 Million to Terrorists in SyriaTony Cartalucci The reportage is a stunning entanglement of contradictions, claiming that the additional funding for terrorists fighting in Syria will somehow address spillover that is in fact a direct result of US, NATO, and their Persian Gulf collaborators creation, expansion, and perpetuation of the war in Syria in the first place. The NYT also stated: Despite the NYTs attempt to portray the US as having consistently resisted providing military aid to terrorists operating along and within Syrias borders, the US, UK, NATO, and the Persian Gulf monarchies have provided terrorists hundreds of millions in aid, including weapons, equipment, and even vehicles. NATO-member Turkey has also provided air and artillery cover for terrorists during cross border operations including most recently in the northwest village of Kessab. The answer is simple. There never were any moderates to begin with. An Independent article titled, I am not fighting against al-Qaida its not our problem, says Wests last hope in Syria, claims: And even with the Independent quoting the would-be recipients of yet hundreds of millions more in Western aid, admitting they work in tandem with Al Qaeda which is now cutting a swatch of horror and mayhem across neighboring Iraq, the truth is from the very beginning, years in fact before the so-called Arab Spring even began, the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia conspired to overthrow Iran and its arch of influence, including the government of Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and surely the Iran-leaning government in Baghdad, by organizing, funding, and arming sectarian militants including Al Qaeda itself. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hershs 2007 New Yorker article, The Redirection prophetically stated (emphasis added): Throughout the rest of Hershs nine-page report, which came out 4 years before the so-called Arab Spring unfolded, is outlined in specific detail how the West and its regional allies including Israel and Saudi Arabia, were already funneling in cash and arraying armed sectarian extremists against Hezbollah inside of Lebanon and against the government of Syria. Hershs report even included a retired CIA agent who portended the sectarian nature of the impending, regional conflict. There is no denying that this premeditated conspiracy described in 2007 has now been brought to full fruition in the form of a increasingly horrific sectarian conflict the West is now poised to further expand by injecting a half-billion dollars into terrorist operations in direct support of ISIS campaigns on both sides of the Syrian-Iraqi border. For the NYT to claim injecting more cash and weapons into efforts to topple governments currently fighting Al Qaedas various regional franchises is some sort of attempt to contain spillover is disingenuous at best, and at worst a poor attempt to cover up what is essentially Washingtons open state sponsorship of the largest terrorist force ever assembled in modern history. Tony Cartalucci, Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer, especially for the online magazine New Eastern Outlook, where this first appeared. 