Angela Keaton, the founder of Antiwar.com, said that ISIS is "entirely a creation of the United States’ behavior in Iraq."Antiwar dot com is a banned source on FR for good reason. Regardless:
Posted on 05/24/2015 5:20:20 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Angela Keaton, the founder of Antiwar.com, said that ISIS is "entirely a creation of the United States’ behavior in Iraq."Antiwar dot com is a banned source on FR for good reason. Regardless:
Growing, for now. Assuming this is the strategy, they are probably waiting to maximize the opportunity. It’s a one strike situation.
The Western work would not be able to do this again.
Your argument relies on an assumption that ISIS has a fixed supply of manpower. Unless you have all Sunni Moslems going to Syria/Iraq, they will keep reloading from the Sunni Moslem population.
Bush left a new-born democracy! ...Obama left us ISIS.
That is true. However, if it is true and it works, it would put down any mass terrorist acts for a couple of generations.
Pass the tinhats.
You’re putting an awful lot of stock in your own extremely optimistic theory. They’re now spread in large numbers from Pakistan to Morocco, into sub Saharan Africa. They’re invading Europe at an astounding rate and those we aren’t inviting in are sneaking across the borders or radicalizing here.
“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.
I’m not putting stock or credibility into anything. I’m only taking the idea of this and drawing a conclusion as to why it might have been done, if it had been done.
The one thing that is noted, which does give support for the idea is how quickly Al Queada and ISIS came together. Regardless of what is the truth, there had to be a deep foundation in the movements to bring them together and hold them together.
Obama proclaimed victory in 201l - “we are leaving behind a secure, stable Iraq.” Why doesn’t anyone remember that?
“They’re invading Europe at an astounding rate”
This is nothing new. Middle/Near Easterners have been invading Europe for the last 40,000 years. They killed off the Neanderthals and their descendants form the substrata of the European population. Then they brought farming and left a huge imprint in Southern Europeans. Then they brought iron and chariots, leaving behind a language family that still exsits today and the culture that existed until Christianity. Of course, they also brought in Christianity, though indirectly through Rome. In the middle ages, they brought in Islam and were eventually expelled. Now, they are doing it again.
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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.
May I ask — where are you getting all these information from?
Here’s a question — did Saddam Hussein know of Zarqawi and Al Baghdadi and did he approve or support their existence in Iraq?
Anyone who believes this, has to also has to believe that 'Fast and Furious' was a great 'gun control' strategy.
The author, Ben Swann, is an avowed Communist who works for Russia Today. Need we say more?
Bush and Obama are both to blame.
One was an idiot and the other one thought he was smarter than the idiot.
Doesn't matter. Everything he says is true.
We created and perpetuated this entire mess by invading Iraq. This will turn out to be worse than Vietnam after it's all said and done.
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