(December 1, 2018 at 3:16 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(December 1, 2018 at 3:07 pm)Cherub786 Wrote: 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.
Not at all. America didn't loose the gorilla in the china shop. America was the one that set up the china shop in the first place.
The gorilla was sent in by Iraq's neighbors (Saudis, Syria and Iran) who did not want the china shop to succeed and become a flourishing business.
This is a much more accurate parable.