French Terror Attacks, scores dead

[abaris]

Analysis oversimplified. ISIS might have emerged regardless. All it often takes is perception of oppression (and over years and decades) to produce and fuel something like ISIS. Anyway, seems more like ISIS is an extension of prior terrorist groups, but with better technology use than before.

As for the names you mentioned, I don't see them any better than ISIS ...

This goes for Erdogan and the American leaders as well.

It's a well known fact that former Iraqi officers are training and commanding ISIS. Not because there's so much love lost between the two groups, but because of sharing the same hatred. So, no unemployed officers, no trained ISIS forces. Even if they emerged anyway, they would have stood on opposing sides of the trenches. And I guess, the republican guards would have made short work of them. Even more so, since the American equipment the new Iraqi army simply threw away when fleeing, wouldn't have landed in the hands of insurgents.