It sounds terrible, but anything is believable these days.
None of those facts are accurate. The US never provided direct aid to the Mujahideen, it was Pakistan that selected which groups.
Saddam was a soviet aligned state up until the Iran-Iraq War as well.
To find the creator, you don’t skip over the people who fund and arm it and go straight to those people who ignored it or “created the condition”. That’s like saying Neville Chamberlain created the Nazi
The bloodiest, ugliest and most expensive chess board in human history.
BS. This is all about pretending Obama didn’t blow it.
The Ron Paul Institute?
Seems like to me that ISIS didn’t really take off until after we helped overthrow Muammar Gaddafi.
No. The U.S. Government did not create the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. The citizens (we the people) are the government, and as part of the government I know I didn't create ISIS. If anyone in the U.S. created ISIS, it was those who were elected and appointed to be our representatives, but instead gave aid and comfort to the enemy and became traitors to the United States of America. They need to be brought to justice, with a trial, conviction, and sentencing for their acts of treason.
With the help of Russia.
So by this logic, the US’s actions were bad, therefore any further actions would also create another bad situation. Why do anything?
Bush left a new-born democracy! ...Obama left us ISIS.
Pass the tinhats.
“It wasn’t until 2009 that ISIS shifted its focus from Iraq, where it was largely unsuccessful in developing a foothold, and focused on the civil war in Syria,” Swann said.
What BS. What luck that a small, insignificant group in Iraq found a home in a destabilized Syria!
Obama's JV team came home to roost.
What I find interesting is that the Left has no problems in saying we should have supported Hussein and left him alone. But they get all verklempft about supporting Assad in his fight against ISIS.
Obama proclaimed victory in 201l - “we are leaving behind a secure, stable Iraq.” Why doesn’t anyone remember that?
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ISIS is Zarqawi’s old group Tawhid wal Jihad with a new name; Baghdadi was one of his underlings who went with Zarqawi to Iraq in the late 1990s. Zarqawi’s group’s been around since before 1999 because that is when Zarqawi planned the Millennium Plot in Jordan targeting hotels, including one a hotel frequented by Americans- the attack was to coincide with a bombing attack on Los Angeles’ international airport. Later, in 2002, his group murdered USAID’s Laurence Foley in Jordan. His group absorbed Mullah Krekar’s Ansar group, a group whose leadership included Iraqi intel agents; then after the US invasion they aligned with Saddam’s general al Dhouri c2004 to become AQI/al Qaeda in Iraq, Then later after Jug Ears took office, they took the name ISIS, and since then ISIL.
Saddam Hussein was responsible for the deaths of 1.3 million innocents. Had he been left alone, he would have a nuke by now.
Throughout world history regimes have found there is a pile of money to be made, and power to be gotten, via creating war and instilling fear.