The weird, sad truth is that Al Qaeda and the US military are working together (maybe not directly, I don't know, I hope not). Anything the US does to hurt Assad's sovereignty helps ISIS and Al Qaeda. McMullin is such a spook. His whole candidacy at the last moment was to simply pull support away from Trump so that Clinton would be elected. The NSA knew she would pose no change in policy. Trump at least campaigned on change. I wish that would have been the case.
That should have already been clear, along with social media and tech. Marxism makes everything political and therefore everything today is.
Democracy has always been the greatest threat to democracy. It is inherently volatile and short on reasoning capacity and so you get no talent charismatics and demagogues We would be better off with boring people who know the ropes.