When Putin carries out airstrikes in Syria, he sees ISIS.

When the U.S. disputes the same targets, it sees Syrian rebel groups and the Free Syrian Army.

The mercenaries, armed with American weapons and Pentagon-source payrolls, aren't terrorists, they are "relatively moderate rebel factions like al-Qaeda."

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Such is the delusion that goes on and on under the spell of the War on Terror. But the re-branding of ISIS to create a new enemy in the wake of bin Laden's death has been too much for much of anyone to take.

But apparently it took Putin to call out the Naked Empire in our misguided and badly executed quest for a New American Century.