I read the entire endless article.
MAIN THING I NOTICED————
The author blames Bush for the creation of ISIS.
The author NEVER MENTIONS any part Obama had with regard to ISIS.
Not a word.
That goes with the theory that ISIS, being partly made up of Baath Party loyalists & Baath regime intel officers mixed in with Zarqawi’s palestinian terrorists, would never have joined ISIS if Bremer hadn’t fired the Baathists from their jobs but had simply left them in place.
The problem in believing that, is that you have to ignore the fact that al Dhouri’s intel agency was composed of girl scouts even though he is the one who changed Saddam’s policies from secular socialism to islamicism to appeal to islamists long before our invasion- at least as early as 1996. You also have to assume that the Baath Party was wholly moderate and people belonged to it only because it was the only way to get ahead and never because they actually agreed with its philosophy or leadership. You must assume that being without their formerly cushy government jobs is what radicalized them and made them killers, instead of desire to advance in the radical Baath Party that employed such moderate tactics as murdering rivals, putting the children of dissidents in prison or even in plastic shredders, and torturing the Iraqi olympic team. Yeah- poor babies lost their jobs! It’s the poverty meme as the root cause of terrorism in another form.
It ignores the fact that the half of ISIS that was run by Zarqawi and Krekar were terrorists long before our invasion and some were actually Saddam Hussein;s intel people even then - being used to assassinate Kurdish opposition, etc. They assassinated US AID’s Lawrence Foley in 2002 in Jordan before Bremer even came along to govern Iraq.