Nice weasel words, Josh. ISIS also did not exist prior to the fateful decision made by the Clinton administration to bomb Serbia. So it is Clinton's fault.
ISIS also did not exist prior to the incompetent attempt to free the Teheran hostages by the Carter administration. So it is Carter's fault.
Josh, you ignorant slut....
ISIS was a creation and franchise of the Muslim Brotherhood, which used the “Arab Spring”, a failed attempt to impose democracy upon the Arabic Islamic nations of the Middle East, as its springboard to expansion and now wave of conquest.
Democratic reform is totally incompatible with Shari’ah law, which was almost immediately imposed by the Muslim Brotherhood once they gained power through “democratic” means. In the chaos which ensued, the “Islamic State” arose as the most unified and militant of those who resisted the acceptance of the “new majority”. Syria, which was already in turmoil and in the throes of its own revolutionary war, was a perfect place to test out the newly created entity, and hone its war skills.
This new entity has been extraordinarily successful, first by the sheer boldness and ruthlessness of their approach, and the lack of any means to adequately counter its growth and aggression.
True, they were fighting against Syria’s strongman ruler, Bashar al-Assad, who has become a pariah in the world, and almost universally regarded as a “bad guy”, but in comparison to what would come should ISIS somehow displace him, al-Assad seems almost benign. But at the same time ISIS is fighting the Syrian national army, they are ALSO fighting OTHER forces ostensibly arrayed against al-Assad.
Can’t tell the players apart without a score card. And even then the picture is still pretty murky.
Apparently, the Current Regime now squatting in the White Hut in the capital of the territory once known as “the United States of America” has chosen to side with ISIS in practically every engagement ISIS has joined into, first by making the way much easier, then by withholding countermeasures to ISIS from those who really are in a battle to dislodge them.