Apropos Saida Fazal's article 'A tale of unintended consequences' carried by the newspaper on Thursday, she has made a strong point that "Washington suddenly realised the danger and gave up the plan to bomb Syrian government forces in support of the rebels, though Saudis, still unmindful of the unfolding horror, pressed Washington to go ahead with the plan. By then the damage was already done. A more extreme version of al Qaeda, ISIS, emerged from the conflict to pose a clear and present threat to Western countries and their local allies' interests in the region and indeed within their own societies."
One may, however, like to add to that argument that the countries such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and the UAE had initially acquiesced to the formation of an organisation that belonged to Abu Musa Zaqawi and Rasheed Baghdadi under a different name. It was mainly Nuri al Maliki's highly sectarian outlook in Iraq and a lack of policy initiative of Washington in relation to Syria that let the genie of ISIS out of the bottle.
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