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Originally Posted by nik-
It didn't create ISIS, and definitely not full stop. The base organization existed before 9/11. Sunni alienation resulted from a Shia majority and a president that catered to that Shia majority, which is something that would have happened with Saddam not there, regardless if the west invaded or not.
We created the stage, not the actors or the motivations.
The middle east is quite capable of being violent without us being puppet masters over everything, and to think we're responsible for it all is pretty patronizing.
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The Ba'ath party was in control of Iraq before Saddam, it was a fairly brutal but completely secular Arab socialist party and would likely would have maintened control after he died.
ISIS itself was formed from ex Baathist officers we fired from the Iraqi military, its creation was utterly our fault.