You wrote, "the troop withdrawals in Iraq, helped gave rise to ISIS/ISIL to begin with," The troop withdrawal in Iraq was caused by an agreement signed between

You wrote, "the troop withdrawals in Iraq, helped gave rise to ISIS/ISIL to begin with," The troop withdrawal in Iraq was caused by an agreement signed between the Bush administration and the Iraqi government. The Obama administration tried (some say not hard enough, but it cannot be denied that it tried) to extend the deadline negotiated by the Bush administration, but the Iraqi government denied the extension. If this is an example of "contrary analysis" you would have been better off sitting on your hands.