US, allies playing both sides of fence in ISIL war

“I think not only is Qatar playing both sides of the fence, it’s the United States playing both sides of the fence,” Rodney Martin, chairman of the American Nationalist Association.
 
“There is a lot of duplicity going on with this so-called ISIL threat which is why the American public really is very tuned in to buying this new boogeyman called ISIL,” he added.
 
The US and its regional allies, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar as well as Jordan, have been bombing ISIL targets in Syria since last month without any authorization from Damascus or a UN mandate.
 
The Syria air campaign is an extension of airstrikes on ISIL positions in Iraq, where five European countries-- Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Britain and France-- have committed aircraft to the military operation.
 
But so far only Britain and France have joined the United States in attacking ISIL strongholds in Iraq.
 
“You have so-called coalition partners that are also, you know, in the day time with the United States coalition and at night getting in the bed with ISIL and providing them all sorts of weapons to engage in what can only be described as genocide of Christians and Shias throughout the region,” Rodney noted.
 
Despite days of intense airstrikes conducted by the US-led coalition, the ISIL militants have managed to take control of a third of the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani.
 
The town and its surroundings have been under steady attacks by ISIL militants since mid-September, forcing nearly 200,000 people to take refuge in Turkey.
 
Pentagon officials also said this week that ISIL militants were gaining ground in Western Iraq, despite more than 345 US-led coalition airstrikes there since Aug. 8.
 
Earlier last month the US Senate approved legislation allowing the military to train and arm “moderate” militants in Syria to take on both ISIL and the government there.