Bush links Clinton to rise of Islamic State

[Xithras]

40. ISIS was the result of a string of failures by two consecutive administrations.

Clinton certainly shares some of the blame for her myopic response to the Syrian insurrection. Rather than recognizing the inherent instability in the ME and using her influence to pursue a diplomatic solution to the Syrian crisis, she fanned the flames by supporting the military insurrection and repeatedly swatting down attempts by Assad to resolve the rebellion peacefully (including the rejection of an Assad offer to amend the constitution to allow true multiparty democracy in the nation). As recently as 2014, Clinton is on record as saying that our biggest mistake in Syria was that we failed to arm and support the rebels when they needed us. As if MORE WEAPONS AND DESTRUCTION was the solution.

Ultimately, the invasion and occupation of Iraq under Bush the Dumber was the action that set the ball rolling and created the fertile ground for ISIS to operate on, and they cut their teeth fighting against American soldiers (and let us not forget that Abu Bakr met his fellow future ISIS co-leaders while interned at an American prison camp after the invasion). But the Obama administrations unwavering support of the Wahabbi-dominated Saudi government and Clinton's hawkish take on the situation allowed ISIS to grow into what we see today.

There's plenty of blame to go around.