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ISIS was strongly emboldened by the withdrawal of US power in Iraq Right. And why was US in Iraq in the first place? Yes. War on terror. US started war on ter
by emilsedgh 6y ago
ISIS was strongly emboldened by the withdrawal of US power in Iraq
Right. And why was US in Iraq in the first place? Yes. War on terror.
US started war on terror, destroyed a couple of existing orders; was not able to restore any order; left prematurely and irresponsibly, leaving a vacuum which was exploited by ISIS (and others).
- dragonwriter 6y ago> And why was US in Iraq in the first place? Because George W. Bush had daddy issues (both of the “you tried to kill my” and “by outdoing I can escape the shadow of my” forms) and Dick Cheney (and the whole PNAC crew in the Bush Administration) had oil issues (of the “we must control it” form), all of which distracted from the war on terror.