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Not following your logic, Obama gave ISIS fertile soil to grow by removing American troops from Iraq, which seems the opposite of a Pax America policy. I also
by lamarpye 8y ago
Not following your logic, Obama gave ISIS fertile soil to grow by removing American troops from Iraq, which seems the opposite of a Pax America policy.
I also don't understand how fighting ISIS made it worse.
- CWuestefeld 8y agoObama's attacks on Syria and especially Libya created a power vacuum - the incumbent leadership was bad, but in its absence there was a void that anything could move into. If Kaddafi were still running Libya, ISIS wouldn't have been. This is also true in Syria, but perhaps to a lesser degree than Libya, since the vacuum was less hard.