Obama Created ISIS

That is not an exaggeration. ISIS would not exist, if Obama weren’t an ignorant clown who has no idea how the rest of the world runs, and who badly messed up with regard to Syria. He should have supported Assad against the rebels. Apparently he thinks that everyone is supposed to crawl to his side of the issues, especially if he’s wrong. For someone who is supposed to be well educated he seems to have a very poor grasp of the situation in the Middle East. I wonder if he even knew that Assad, both father and son, have ruled a diverse population in Syria since Hafez became President in 1971 and made Syria the most open society in that region. 

The Assads are members of the tiny Islamic Alawite sect, so it was to their advantage to protect smaller religious and ethnic groups. Syria is the home for many ethnic groups who had been run out of their homes or who had survived since ancient times. By holding them together the Assads developed a fairly good power base, even though the Sunnis were the majority.

We can also blame every country and organization that has backed the rebels in Syria for contributing to the development of ISIS, but Obama did more than the rest to assist ISIS. Failing to support the Syrian government was a bad mistake. 

It wasn’t long ago when the U.S.A. had competent leaders who had the intelligence and education to understand the international situation, but in the last few decades we have had ignorant and sometimes stupid leaders who ran foreign policy based on what they thought they wanted, while they ignored facts. Putting the Palestinian situation aside, the present problems in the Mideast were caused primarily by the actions of G. W. Bush, who destabilized the region with his foolish invasions that didn’t accomplish anything except infuriate most of the people in that region and kill off people who were foolish enough to stay in the U.S. military. The stupidity of Bush was followed by the stubbornness of Obama, who continued the failed and wrong policies of Bush. Both of them, and to a lesser extent, prior U.S. leaders had been opposed to the Syrian government, even though it remains the only secular regime in the region. The Syrian government has been non-religious because the people of Syrian are so divided by religious and ethnic differences. Even with a Sunni majority Syria has continued to be open and permissive to all religions. The present rebellion is a campaign to impose Wahhabi Sunni doctrines on all of the people of Syria, and that is what ISIS exists to do. Even though majority rule may be desirable sometimes, imposing majority held beliefs on everyone is not desirable, and the Assads have prevented any religious group from imposing its standards on the rest of the people of Syria. What the Assads did was good, and we Americans and freedom loving people everywhere should encourage Syria to remain open to all opinions. And we should assist the Syrian government to retain religious freedom. 

It isn't too late. We can still save the people of Syria from a religious dictatorship. The U.S. should support the Syrian army in its attempts to defeat the rebels, all of the rebels. We should send weapons and ammunition to the Syrian army, and we should assist in attempts to cut off supplies from ISIS.

Syria is not an ally, but it is on the same side in this war, and it is a friend of the third sort; the enemy of our enemy is our friend.