> Because the IDF would have annihilated them. It's far easier to pick on haphazard regimes, who are generally incapable of organizing strategic defensive effor

> Because the IDF would have annihilated them. It's far easier to pick on haphazard regimes, who are generally incapable of organizing strategic defensive efforts. Then why do I read an article like this in Jerusalem Post, quoting WSJ: http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Report-Israel-treating-al-Qaida-fighters-wounded-in-Syria-civil-war-393862 http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Report-Israel-treating-al-Q... They even quote Assad: “Some in Syria joke: 'How can you say that al-Qaida doesn’t have an air force? They have the Israeli air force',” Assad told Foreign Affairs magazine earlier this year. “They are supporting the rebels in Syria. It is very clear.” > ISIS was more about power and wealth than it was about ideology. The ideology was just a vehicle. ISIS/AQ/Whatever-name-their-master-gives-them is a project to destabilize Syrian government that didn't want to play along with plans of the US empire for the Middle East. Quick summary of a FOIA document obtained by Judicial Watch: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/05/newly-declassified-u-s-government-documents-the-west-supported-the-creation-of-isis.html http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/05/newly-declassified-u-... BTW, this document was produced in August 2012 by DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency; basically, Pentagon's Intel Agency). At that moment, guess who was its chief: Gen. Michael Flynn. Yes, that Flynn you now see in the media. EDIT: A video of Flynn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Y274U7QIs&feature=youtu.be&t=8m11s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Y274U7QIs&feature=youtu.be...