Manama, Bahrain (AP)-T
In a Saturday AP story entitled US pledges nearly $100 million to support Syrian opposition, both the US State Department and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia all but admitted to virtually every act of war against the Syrian government since 2012 that has induced the mass migration of refugees into Europe.  Both stopped short of admitting to jointly financing–and probably training–ISIS (ISIL).  The US openly admitted to secretly financing the “moderate opposition” to the Assad regime for three years.  It does not take much imagination to impute that they have also financed ISIS as well, probably through Saudi Arabia, the US’s largest purchaser of weapons. Here are a few choice quotes from the story that leave little doubt the US and the Saudis are responsible for the mass of desperate Syrian refugees that now floods into Europe.  It is newsworthy that neither the Secretary of State, John Kerry, nor President Obama were involved in this statement that openly challenges Russia in what could evolve into a giant war in the Middle East.
A few noteworthy quotes from the story are:
“The United States ramped up its support for Syria’s opposition with a pledge of nearly $100 million in fresh aid on Saturday…Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the additional assistance at the Manama Dialogue security conference in the Gulf island nation of Bahrain…The American promise of cash, which it says brings to nearly $500 million the amount it has pledged to the opposition since 2012, came a day after the U.S. announced it was intensifying its fight against the Islamic State group in Syria with the deployment of up to 50 special operations troops.”
“[The Saudi representative] Al-Jubeir also made clear that the negotiations had done nothing to change Saudi Arabia’s position that Assad must go…He said the oil-rich kingdom’s policy toward Syria has not changed, and that it would continue to support what he called the moderate Syrian opposition.  He described the presence of foreign forces, particularly Iranian troops, as a roadblock to ending the fighting in a war that has killed more than 250,000 people and forced 11 million from their homes.”
Blinken was no less warlike in his posture;...”Russia cannot afford to sustain its military onslaught against everyone opposed to Assad’s brutal rule.  The costs will mount every day in economic, political, and security terms — but at best only to prevent Assad from losing”.
 Full AP story