Donald Trump took his turn in front of the VFW on Tuesday, and while he didn’t have a lot of ideas for making things better for veterans or plans to deal with global threats (other than giving chunks of NATO to Putin), he did have a call to make the army yuuge. He also had plenty of blame to hand out.
“Because in a very true way, they really established ISIS because of weakness,” the New York businessman continued. “The people in this room know better than anybody else or any other audience what I mean by weakness. But because of weakness, ISIS has been established.”
Weakness apparently involves an ability to time travel, as ISIS formed up as al-Qaida in Iraq in 2004 and expanded into Islamic State of Iraq in 2006.
Is it possible to find a neutral party who might clarify who created ISIS? How about UK foreign secretary David Miliband:
The 2003 invasion of Iraq by the US and its ally the UK helped to destabilize the country, leading to the rise of militant group Isis, admitted former UK foreign secretary David Miliband.
But hey, ISIS did change it’s name in 2013. So that means Democrats take the blame.
If you count 2013 as the start of ISIS, what kind of weak stuff happened since then? There was the weak 10,000 ISIS fighters killed by airstrikes in 2015 alone. There was the weak kicking ISIS out of about half the territory and locations it previously controlled. And the weak defeat of ISIS along a broad strip of territory in both Iraq and Syria. You know. Weakness.