The war on terror was always a sick joke considering the US’s history of using terrorists to carry out its foreign policies, but now that Ahmed al–Sharaa arrived at the White House to meet President Donald Trump it’s more obvious than ever.

Al–Sharaa is the type of savage, mass murdering Sunni jihadist that the US has been at war with since 9/11, and just months ago he still had a $10 million price on his head.

Now he’s meeting Trump in the Oval Office, and hooping-it-up with the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

It’s fucking surreal.

Thanks to decades of propaganda with it’s rotating cast of good guys and villains the corporate media has led us to a milieu that would have been familiar to Winston Smith in 1984. Here’s the headline in the Dec. 3 editions of The Telegraph: “How Syria’s ‘diversity-friendly’ jihadists plan on building a state.” Maybe they are employing the proper pronouns as they are chopping heads off?

I’ve noted repeatedly that Al-Qaeda and ISIS are as much creations of the US as the drug cartel’s, and serve the same purpose as far as USA policy is concerned, to excuse and justify intervention in pursuit of geopolitical/financial goals and resource control. The reason that Al–Sharaa or Abu Muhammad al–Jolani, if you prefer, is hobnobbing in DC is because of his efforts during Obama’s Timber Sycamore, a CIA extended covert operation against the Assad regime in Syria. After the CIA, with MI6’s able assistance, turned the “Arab Spring” protests in Syria into a bloody armed conflict starting in 2011, Al–Jolani helped form Jabhat al–Nusra, al–Qaeda’s front organization in Syria.

The longer version is that after the invasion of Iraq went south and it became apparent that the big winner had been Iran, America redirected and started working with Sunni terrorists. The US was following the British Empire in the employment of a divide and conquer strategy, where the tensions between Sunni and Shia could be exploited. Abu Muhammad al–Jolani, is simply the latest itineration of proxy terrorist that the US uses to carry out its machinations to maintain the empire.

We may never know exactly why Trump and his people had al–Sharaa into the Oval Office, but I’ll bet it had something to do with Israel. The key to the shift in alignments from terrorist designated enemy to good friend was certainly the declaration by the Syrian government that it would have normal diplomatic and other relations with Israel. Israel has long sought the overthrow of former Syrian president, Bashar Assad, and because they also utilizes terrorists on an ongoing basis, they are thrilled to have someone like al–Jolani as the ruler of Syria. The IDF has been expanding into Lebanon as well as into Syria and also appears to be heavily involved with Pentagon plans to create new US military bases near Gaza and Damascus.

The whole thing is so dark and sick that it makes my stomach hurt.

But seeing al–Jolani posing with Trump in the Oval Office is clarifying. These people are not aberrations or mistakes. They are the reflection of American foreign policy. America created most of them. Certainly it created the man who now names himself Syria’s president.

Let’s face it– terrorist ‘r’ us–and al–Jolani is merely the latest manifestation.