[0:00]So the Israelis at the end of the Iraq war were like, no, this is not going to work at all. We have to break this up. We have to go to war in Syria. We have to take down Assad. Arab Spring happens. There was some energy from the people. I think it was somewhat organic. But then in short order, we came in and we said, we're we're going to work with the Israelis. But we're also going to have to work heavily with the Sunni population on the ground in Syria to create an uprising, and that's where ISIS came from. We worked directly with al-Qaeda. Hillary Clinton's emails confirm this. The operations that we were doing to support the so-called Free Syrian Army, and there were some moderates there. But the most effective guys initially were al-Qaeda and then eventually ISIS. Now, obviously, ISIS got out of control, and they started plotting attacks in Europe. They started plotting attacks in America. They took over large swaths of Iraq. So we then had to go back and put out once again the brush fire that we had started and go after ISIS. And that's where I lost my late wife. But Israel was the driving factor in that. We took down Saddam, who was a strong man against Israel. We then had to go in and take out Assad, who was a strong man against Israel as well. And now this is the third phase. We're going now into Iran to take out that strong government for Israel.

Joe Kent: US worked with al-Qaeda, ISIS in Syria
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[0:00]So the Israelis at the end of the Iraq war were like, no, this is not going to work at all.
[0:00]But then in short order, we came in and we said, we're we're going to work with the Israelis.
[0:00]But we're also going to have to work heavily with the Sunni population on the ground in Syria to create an uprising, and that's where ISIS came from.
[0:00]The operations that we were doing to support the so-called Free Syrian Army, and there were some moderates there.
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