First time I disagree — strongly — with Uncle Dan.
ISIS is a Baathist-Islamist hybrid that devours its creators, turning on Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood, and at times even threatening its Baathist allies. Its hybrid of Socialism and an Islam so medieval and brutal that it even frightens Al Qaeda and the Brotherhood has its roots in Saddam’s Iraq. Televising new and more extreme tortures was a tactic that was more Saddam than Osama.
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Saddam aided the Muslim Brotherhood in trying to topple Assad’s father, yet learned no lessons from it. Assad aided the Al Qaeda attacks on Americans, but didn’t consider what would happen when Al Qaeda turned its attention to him. Both regimes sowed the Islamist seeds of their own destruction and made inevitable their transformation into Islamic terror states.
Obama has overseen the rise and empowerment of ISIS. It has been on his watch that this barbarian cult has emerged as a major player internationally. Daniel's position is that ISIS was birthed as an extension of Assad's and Sadam's efforts to support the emergence of a virulent form of primitive Islam to counter their then enemies. Obama has similarly downplayed the awful demonic activity of ISIS as a means of bringing about the global chaos he seeks.