re: Serious question: Did the radical Muzzies take Covid and Election season off?

Flashback: March, 2016....the following headline sums up the circular futility of our nation’s war efforts in the Middle East for at least the past 25 years or so:


In Syria, militias armed by the Pentagon fight those armed by the CIA....

And isn’t it odd how since Trump ended ‘Operation Timber Sycamore’ — the CIA’s covert funding of “moderate” jihadists in Syria — the molt of ISIS has been greatly decreased across much of the Middle East?




Behind the Sudden Death of a $1 Billion Secret C.I.A. War in Syria: The shuttering of the C.I.A. program, one of the most expensive efforts to arm and train rebels since the agency’s program arming the mujahedeen in Afghanistan during the 1980s, has forced a reckoning over its successes and failures....