Signs of double-think by Americans on ISIS threat

On the one hand, the United States claim they have hard evidence for militant activity. This justifies drone strikes, which kill alleged militants in places like Afghanistan, Waziristan, and Yemen, etc, and this is keeping us safe.

Signs of double-think by Americans on ISIS threat

On the other hand, Robert Fisk, speaking recently on Australian television, claims that “when columns of ISIS forces arrive [in Syria] in their thousands across the desert, clearly visible on American satellite pictures, the Americans don’t bomb ISIS then.

“They let them attack the Syrian Army and beat them, of course.”

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