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Originally Posted by Itse
Accusations of what? The US has been both directly and indirectly but knowingly arming Islamists in the region for decades. There is plenty of circumstancial evidence that they're STILL channeling arms to AL-Qaeda affiliates. They've most certainly taken the Islamist side in the propaganda war over Aleppo.
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Although the US has historically done all these things, it's hard to put say they are continuing to do those things in Syria. Initially yes, they supported less extreme groups. They also stopped doing that very early on in the process, when it became clear that any weapons put into the area would end up in the hands of the most extreme groups.
As far as a propaganda wars go, I really don't see the USA engaged in that anymore. Quite frankly do they need to be? All the major players seem so evil, that the propaganda writes itself. The Russian backed Assad regime is an elitist group of homicidal manics; ISIS is a group of religiously motivated homicidal maniacs; and other groups like the Kurds also practice terrorism, but aren't quite as evil. While it would be nice to help out the less radical factions, the area and the conflict is such a cluster @#$#@ that its not possible, and that seems to be more or less the official policy of the US government.
As far as Aleppo goes specifically, is there really all that much in dispute about what actually happened? It was totally under control by Islamists who were very bad people. Most recently, Assad invaded. He didn't invade to help anyone though. He's not offering freedom. He's offering rule by a class of Alawite elites that subjugate. And in order to reach that point of subjugation, he needs to demolish Aleppo and then purge it.
ISIS also controls vast swaths of oil fields. They don't need the USA to provide them with weapons. They can just buy them.