@hawkeye10,
hawkeye10 wrote:Daesh was created by Shrub, when he dissolved the Iraq military and forbid any Baathist from power.It was helped along when the US military but especially the CIA showed preferential treatment to shia when we occupied the country. Daesh was born in Camp Bucca, which was wholly run by the USA with incompetence and lack of awareness to reality. It was nourished after birth by about 40 governments, a list which includes the USA.
The US may have been responsible for throwing a bunch of Baathists out of their middle class jobs and embittering them. But far from nourishing them, by the time we had pulled out of Iraq, we had given the Iraqi Sunnis an alternative path, and the Sunnis had overthrown the Baathist extremists who had been dominating their region.
The only preferential treatment the US showed the Iraqi Shia was our acknowledgement of their rightful status as the majority population in a democracy.
Assad deliberately freed all terrorists from his prisons, welcomed all foreign terrorists who wanted to enter Syria, deliberately avoided making any military attacks against terrorists, and used his military power to weaken and eliminate any moderate rivals to the terrorists.
The only reason Islamic State has their current position in Syria is because Assad has very carefully nurtured their growth.
