ISIS and US foreign policy

In Iraq, the US is conducting aerial attacks along with flying over military advisers and trainers to help defeat the advance of ISIS. In Syria, US policy is the exact opposite; US is funding ISIS rebels against the Assad government. If this does not leave you scratching your head then you have no qualms understanding that the US government creates and finances extremists groups as proxies to fight its battles at home and abroad.

Obama encouraged the growth of ISIS in Syria by sending thousand of dollars in aid, guns and other weaponry to overthrow Assad. When the same ISIS group invaded Iraq, Obama started contemplating sending green-lighted F-16 bombing raids to quell their uprising. When Obama wanted regime change in Syria, he used ISIS as a de-facto ally. Since Obama does not want regime change in Iraq, because the US maintains a good command over Iraqi politics, he is criticizing ISIS operation in the region. As long as ISIS was helping the US interests in Syria, Obama certified and supported its murderous rampage. Now when ISIS is upsetting the US order in Iraq (especially the oil-rich autonomous zone in the Northwest),  ISIS is labelled as a jihadist movement, worst than al-Qaeda.

It is clear that the US foreign policy has little to do with humanitarianism and more with boasting its military and corporate power.

As Woodrow Wilson's Secretary  of State had already pointed out 60 years earlier, "the United States considers its own interests. The integrity of other American nations is an incident, not an end." Wilson applied this world-view when he invaded Haiti and the Dominican Republic, where his warriors murdered and destroyed the countries' political systems, establishing US corporations firmly in their places, and setting the stage for brutal and corrupt puppet dictatorships. What's happening in Syria and Iraq is no different.