WHO FOUNDED ISIS AND WHO CARES ANYWAY?

Of course neither Obama nor Hillary Clinton founded ISIS but who did?  It was Abu Musab al Zarqawi in 2004.*

Though Trump is getting criticized for his language, the more standard Republican reply is more polite but is every bit as faulty as Trump.  They ASSUME that leaving maybe 10,000 troops in Iraq would have stiffened the Iraq military, and they wouldn't have been so easily defeated by ISIL as actually happened.  Maybe but they DON'T know that.  After all more than 10,000 troops were left in Afghanistan, and the Taliban regrouped in Pakistan and came back stronger than ever.  Furthermore, the elected Prime Minister if Iraq, Milaki, wanted us to leave and said if any American troops remained they would have been under Sharia Law.**  You can imagine the uproar the first time a U.S. soldier raped a Muslim woman and was sentenced to death by stoning.  Of course, I suppose we could have just ignored their decision on Sharia Law, but would we then have been occupiers and go in and rescue the soldier?  How popular would that make us?

Republicans also ASSUME that everything would have been all right in Syria if we only had inserted a small force early to overthrow Assad without plans for a successor; however, at the same time they bemoan our helping overthrow Qaddafi without plans for a successor.  Even now, Obama is unable to find a good plan for a successor to Assad in Syria should he be overthrown.  After all G.H.W. Bush resisted pursuing Saddam in Iraq because we didn't know who the successor would be and it might be someone even worse.***

Also when Assad overstepped the Red Line in Syria and used poison gas on his citizens, Obama is widely criticized for not bombing Assad's stronghold as promised.  Obama didn't do it because Assad promised to turn over his outlawed poison gases if he was not bombed.  These critics ASSUME that Assad was a goner if bombed; however, we really don't know that.  I'm sure that we could have destroyed a lot of buildings and probably killed a lot of civilians in the bombing, but it is doubtful if Assad himself would have been killed as he was no doubt secured in some well protected bunker.  I could understand people saying that Obama should have gotten more than "just" getting rid of the outlawed poison gases, but I have never heard this argument.

Seems like whatever you do in the Middle East is wrong.

* http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/11/who-founded-isis-abu-musb-al-zarqawi-started-the-terror-group.html
** http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2014/08/iraq-and-afghanistan.html
*** http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2014/07/syria-vs-libya.html