The United States should have stepped up and destroyed ISIS at its origins rather than wait until ISIS grew their capabilities and influence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The rise of ISIS is a result of - Obama and Clinton making a decision to pull our troops out without preparing Iraq is a colossal mistake.
Actually, if you look at the essence of ISIS, how it came about, it's the product of foreign invasion. Foreign invasion in Iraq led to removal of Saddam Hussein, and we're not unhappy with that, but the point is that foreign presence in any territory has created dynamics. And you cannot avoid those dynamics.
If anything caused ISIS, it was the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.
United States and our allied partners need to wake up. ISIS is at war with us and civilization.
We have to defeat ISIS. We have to make certain that we destroy them and that we push them back.
There's a reason ISIS exists, which is because we've invaded countries, and they hate the Western world. I'm not forgiving them; I'm just saying there's a reason.
Many in the U.S. military believe ISIS needs to be immediately, and repeatedly, smashed by American drones and warplanes.
The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence.
The rise of ISIS starts with a Jordanian thug named Abu Musab al-Zarqawi who founded ISIS' parent organization, al Qaeda, in Iraq. What gave Zarqawi the opportunity to create al Qaeda in Iraq? It was, of course, George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
If we had maintained a small, residual force in Iraq, I don't think the Islamic State would have risen to power as it has.