How uneducated do you have to be to equate ISIS with the Syrian people? Yes, the bombings are taking place in Syria, but they are targeting ISIS, whose fighters are in large parts non-Syrian foreigners (many of them from Europe). This is one of the reasons that, of all the insurgent groups in Syria, ISIS has the least support from the local population. From what we know right now, most of the Paris attackers were not from Syria, many of them were born and raised in Europe.

It's also not the case that people do not know the history. US support for Bin Laden's faction against the soviets in Afhghanistan is well known. The same is true for Saudi Arabia.

What is your point though, where's the connection to the current conflict? What should the West do? Sit back and let ISIS take over more and more uncontrolled territory?