Eye Recommend --- ISIS is an American Invention

John McCain in Syria earlier this year.

FOR MANY IRANIANS, THE 'EVIDENCE' IS CLEAR: ISIS IS AN AMERICAN INVENTION, by Thomas Erdbrink -- http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/world/middleeast/isis-many-in-iran-believe-is-an-american-invention.html?from=homepage&_r=2

This is incredible.  

"Iranians are as obsessed as Americans these days with the black-clad gangs roaming Iraq and Syria and killing Shiites and other 'infidels' in the name of Sunni Islam.  At the supermarket, in a shared taxi or at family gathering, conversations often turn to the mysterious group, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and how it came to be.

And for most Iranians, the answer is obvious: the United States.

'Come on, you know who has created ISIS,' said the supermarket owner, winking his right eye. 'Admit it,' demanded the taxi driver, hitting his steering wheel to make his point.  'It is so obvious!'...

...ISIS, Iranian leaders have been saying for a long time, is made-in-the-U.S.A., a tool of terror intended by the world's superpower to divide and conquer the energy-rich Middle East and to counter the growing influence of Iran in the region.

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has often said that he believes ISIS was created by the United States as a way to regain a foothold in Iraq and to fight President Bashiar al-Assad of Syria, an ally of Iran.

'We have evidence we know,' he told an audience of clerics last week, without elaborating.

Ayatollah Khamenei reminded them that Al Qaeda--a creation of the Central Intelligence Agency, Iran has said--and the Taliban were, in the eyes of Iranian intelligence, devised by the West as a counterweight to Iran.

'There is no doubt that these movements are created by Western powers and their regional agents,' Mr. Khamenei has insisted,..

On Wednesday (Iranian TV) showed what it said were images of Senator John McCain...at a meeting with the current caliph of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.  'These say more than a thousand words regarding the links between the United States and this group,' an announcer said."

Thank you, John McCain.  We've all seen the pictures from your trip to Syria earlier this year; now Iran is using them as a tool of anti-American propaganda. Didn't W cause enough damage?  Did you really need to add more fuel to the fire? 

At the time of his trip, Mr. McCain spoke to Anderson Cooper saying, "It is a very moving experience to meet these fighters who have been struggling now for over two years."  

As if we needed more proof that members of Congress flying to foreign countries on "diplomatic" missions is a bad idea, or more evidence that John McCain is woefully out of touch with the world and achingly unaware of his incompetence.  

"The claim that ISIS is a creation of the Obama administration has gained wide traction here.  From the Iranian viewpoint, shaped by their spotty exposure to Western culture, analysts say, creating a terrorist organization opposed to Iranian interests is the obvious thing for a superpower to do.

'These ISIS fighters, they remind me of American cowboy movies,' said Mostafa Faramazian, an employee of the Oil Ministry...'They are performing the American dream in a faraway land...Their goal is to make us weak, like they did with the Indians.'...

...But why would the United States now declare ISIS a threat to its national security?...

...'The United States created a monster, even beyond their own control.  If they don't stop ISIS now, nobody can predict what will happen in the future.'"

As I said: incredible. 

There is no clear right or wrong side in the Middle East.  Allies on Tuesday are enemies on Wednesday, and members of Congress who insist on stirring the pot when the White House should be the only one with a spoon is just another sign of disrespect for our duly elected President; but they just can't seem to stop themselves.

Read about more unhelpful GOP foreign interference here: http://whateyethynk-politics.blogspot.com/2014/08/rand-paul-trash-talking-its-not-wrong.html