It would hardly be the first time we’ve attacked—or claimed to attack—Islamic Jihadi terrorist cells. ISIS is providing an pretext for the US to intervene against Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso developing genuine sovereignty.

The terrorist groups are essentially chaos monkeys who are there to destabilize the region, similar to how they did (or tried to do) in Afghanistan, Xinjiang, and Syria.

What went unmentioned in Biden’s celebration of the fall of Assad was the role the U.S. played in the Syrian civil war. In addition to openly supporting and arming Kurdish-led forces, the CIA ran a covert program to arm and train so-called “moderate rebels” from the Free Syrian Army in the early years of the war at an estimated cost of roughly $1 billion a year. Over the past decade, the U.S. has carried out airstrikes in Syria, primarily against ISIS forces, and is believed to have continued its clandestine training and arming of opposition forces.