Quote:Iraq could not possibly have been stable.   We deposed a Sunni minority and installed a Shia majority who refused to allow any Sunni participation in the government.    That is why we have ISIS.   ISIS is being run by a remnant of Saddam Hussein's army.  

I enjoy the different origin stories for ISIS. One is that they're remnants of Hussein's army. Another is that they're disenchanted Sunnis who seek revenge on the west for eliminating their position of power. Their actual origins lie in the late 1990's, when they formed as a terror group independent of Al Qaeda or the Taliban before swearing allegiance to Osama Bin Laden and becoming the natural successors to AQ when it was effectively reduced to a shell of its former self.

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