Michel Chossudovsky interviewed on the Guns and Butter show clearly outlines the ISIS is a tool of the Western governments.

In the show he states the obvious:

emEverything indicates this capture of a city of more than 1 million people was staged because it is impossible for a force of 1000 rebels to come in and take over a city of 1 million when it has a standing army of 30,000. It was a very well equipped army and would have decimated those 1000 rebels in no time, with US advanced technology, helicopters and so on.

The commander general of those forces left the city -was either told to leave or co-opted in some way./em

You can download the audio at: http://archives.kpfa.org/data/20140618-Wed1300.mp3