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Et d’ailleurs Wikileaks ressort à l’instant un email d’un conseiller d’Hillary de février 2012 (Jacob Sullivan, alors “Director of Policy Planning” du Département d’État) :
▻https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/23225#efmAGIAHu

See last item - AQ is on our side in Syria.

Otherwise, things have basically turned out as expected.

En 2015, du même Friedman :

Now I despise ISIS as much as anyone, but let me just toss out a different question: Should we be arming ISIS? Or let me ask that differently: Why are we, for the third time since 9/11, fighting a war on behalf of Iran?

[...] Obviously, I abhor ISIS and don’t want to see it spread or take over Iraq. I simply raise this question rhetorically because no one else is: Why is it in our interest to destroy the last Sunni bulwark to a total Iranian takeover of Iraq?

▻https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/18/opinion/go-ahead-ruin-my-day.html

Mais eh ! „Hégémonie bienveillante !”