US militias who later became ISIS

"In 2007, as part of a strategy to defeat al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), Petraeus armed and funded Sunni militias to stop fighting the US and start fighting AQI. The strategy worked, well, at least temporarily – that is until many of these militias later became ISIS. Now Petraeus wants to hit wash, spin, repeat." "Armed with American cash and guns, these Sunni extremist groups were meant to fight Hezbollah in Lebanon, Assad in Syria, and Shiite militias in Iraq."