You DO understand that this article was from 2013 (even highlighted this in the headline), right?
I understand that completely. The forces that sucked us into the ME and Iraq etc and that wanted Assad taken out are still in motion. Obama stated Assad must go and every tribal anarchist hack in Syria and elsewhere wanted a piece of the pie. ISIS was created to turn it into a war zone.
We will never make America great as long as our government is infiltrated by destructive forces that will keep us in greater debt and focused on stupid wars that do nothing to MAGA.
External forces are slowly making their way to divide the USA too with their obsession with PC and multiculturalism.