I am guessing that it took you awhile, Sell, to put this together, and I don't want to spend that much time critiquing it, but I will do my best on the fly here:
Over 100 ISIS commanders and leadership are from the former Hussain Iraq government. (blowback from our FP)
Comment: This was a decision made early on after the invasion, to dismantle the Iraqi military completely. I think it was a bad idea, but you also have to wonder, if you are right and more than 100 ISIS commanders are from Hussein's forces, how loyal would they have been in a U.S.-trained and administered army? Or do you have a brilliant hindsight plan of how to have vetted them before hiring them for the new Iraqi army?
The State department (Hillary) decided we should overthrow Assad to hurt Hezbollah and Iran for the benefit of Israel. (how does this play into our national interest?)
Again, it looks like bad policy now, but at the time, there was a groundswell of popular Syrian hatred for Assad. But if anybody seems to have had a sound policy for the Middle East, I guess I would vote for Buggs' JFK assassin enabler, George HW Bush, who decided we probably are better off if we don't know what we're doing to let dictators stay in power if they are all that stands between keeping some sort of peace and Wreaking havoc on the world.
They were warned that military action in Syria and overthrowing Assad would result in the rise of a new radical group (ISIS) and opted to do so anyway (again not in our national interest to mess with Syria, and now a reason not to do it)
See my comment above.
ISIS is the greatest current terrorist threat per Obama's counter-terrorism chief. (good going guys, you created the mess!)
According to the best accounts I have been able to ferret out, ISIS started in northern Iraq during the Bush W. occupation and our commanders at that time had a chance to go in and clean them out, but declined. It goes without saying that our exit from Iraq allowed ISIS a great opportunity, which they took. There is no doubt that Obama's administration has to hold the jacket for that, but one wonders how much our country would have stood for expenditures of more hundreds of billions and young lives lost for a more protracted war than we already had experienced? The reality is we may have to expend that money, effort and blood again to clean this up. It is a grotesque tragedy of history. You seem to want to lay this at Hillary's feet. If she is the war-monger that her critics are saying she is, d'ya think maybe she was counseling Obama to stay in Iraq, possibly?
Assad's Syria, Hezbollah, and Iran -the ones this operation initially was intended to hurt- are now fighting ISIS. (at least our enemies will wipe our behinds)
Comment: This administration is widely being excoriated because ISIS and other forces inimical to our interests there are using our left-behind equipment from the Iraq war. Obama was insistent that he did not want to arm groups that would turn on us in Syria, and he is heavily criticized, sometimes by the same people, for taking THIS stance. It is easy to sit on the sidelines and carp, but you don't have to make the decisions, Obama does. How would you handle the Kurds, the best, most effective anti-ISIS, anti-al Qaeda fighters in the theater, who are deeply hated and distrusted by our close ally, Turkey, not to mention by Sunni and Shia Iraqis and by the Iranians? Choose a side, pal, and wait for everybody else to pile on you and tell you how wrong, naive and stupid you are.
As for your final two points, I think your contention that our Foreign Policy (I assume that is what your FP is) has made sure that radical extremists have risen to the top of the world, I am not sure I see your argument. I guess you could say our mistakes have allowed them to rise in power, but our policy is not designed to do so. The whole point of the Obama approach was to NOT send arms that would end up being used against us. I don't see how you can come up with that idea. I totally disagree with your final point. They hate us for our freedoms because our freedoms are a direct contradiction to the ancient feudal caliphate fantasy they have of restoring Islam as a great world power, They do prey on kids who see the excesses of western consumer society, knowing it is unlikely those kids will never experience it, then use that reality to instill a hatred toward us and attracting them to Jihad and the delusionary promises of revenge, death and virgins in heaven. The people who are for Trump and against Hillary are the very same voters who scream about foreign aid, a tiny percent of our annual budget that actually takes the promise of a better life to them and helps people work to achieve a better life for themselves and their families. So go figure.
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