(December 1, 2018 at 3:07 pm)Cherub786 Wrote:(December 1, 2018 at 2:42 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Hardly, Iraq hardly would have undergone the travails of the last 17 years under Saddam. Most of Syria and the rest of the middle east will eternally despise him for lunching the invasion that is the ultimate cause of ISIS. Europeans will eternally loath him for the ISIS triggering the refugee crisis that put the European Union experiment in jeopardy.
The US is not responsible for ISIS. I know the history of ISIS going back to Zarqawi. They were encouraged by the Syrian Baathist regime of Assad to destabilize Iraq for the reasons I mentioned already. This extreme faction of Qaeda then declared themselves ISIS, terrorized the Sunnis of Anbar and Mosul, committing acts of terrorism on the Shiites too. Why would the US create ISIS to destabilize its own project of nation building in Iraq?
If Bush or a neocon was president, they would have bombed Syria to smithereens allowing the FSA to take control and oust the Baathists and you would have no refugee problem.
Obama and now Trump are weak and incompetent on Syria. And that maniac Assad turned his own country into rubble, pushing it centuries back and now it is an economic catastrophe, all for the purpose of remaining in power as president. I tell you, these people deserve what happens to them for their unlimited stupidity
If you send a gorilla into a china shop, you are responsible for all the broken crockery in there even if the gorilla did it and not you.
We sent a gorilla into Iraq, ISIS is one of the shards of broken crockery that resulted in the region. We are fucking responsible.