Is the United States making the same mistake it made...?

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in Syria right now that it made in Afghanistan during the 1980's? Supplying sunni islamist rebels and their allies with weapons to overthrow the government in a bloody civil war, like it supplied islamist rebels in afghanistan in the 80s, and those rebels turned on the very Americans who helped them?

I don't know about the U.S. sending in weapons, but Obama's and Clinton's policy of destabilizing various regimes and not being willing to back up any viable replacements is definitely a massive mistake. Prior to the' Arab Spring', things might not have been great, but they were tolerable. Now, people are being killed by the truck load, not one by one as they were before. These rank amateur, short-sighted foreign policy decisions are going to wreck this world.
I watched a program on Fox News this Sunday where they were reporting on the plight of Iraqi Christians displaced by ISIS. This administration won't give them asylum, nor even acknowledge that by helping to cause this situation, they have morally obligated the U.S. to do something.

Which is probably why that have got very little weapons and training this time. They can't be trusted with thing.

Heck a large portion of the Iraqi army just abandoned their weapons to ISIS.

There are Sunni tribe who believed the "my ememy's enemy is my friend", now they are cry out for help. We can't both help ad not interfere.

The west can take responsibility for some of it, but also these people have to learn to get along in the first place.

If I was are consonantly blaming others for soemthign i have some control over, you ad the very least think I'm neurotic.

These problem go back 13 centuries to the battle of karbala, and the tensions deeply ingrained.

How many time you hear something talkign on behalf all Iraqi or Syrians? There are ones begging for interventions, other who don't want it. It is never clear cut.