Donald Trump has said of Obama, "he’s the founder of ISIS". He stated that Hillary is a co-founder of ISIS. The remarks have touched off anger from certain media outlets, but is it true or not?
The organization we currently know as ISIS had earlier incarnations, but it adopted its current name in response to its growing successes in the Arab Spring which was heavily backed and championed by Obama and Hillary. The expansion of ISIS in the Arab Spring functionally turned it into a very different organization. It not only temporarily succeeded in creating its Caliphate, but it went from a marginal terror group to a microstate controlling cities, large populations and winning the allegiance of Islamic terror groups around the world. And it was able to carry out terror attacks in America.
This was a fundamental change in its structure and its identity. It is therefore accurate to peg the transformation of ISIS as the starting point of the group we know today rather than its earlier far more weaker incarnations.
There is no escaping the fact that ISIS is intertwined with the Arab Spring and that the organization as we know it today would not have become the threat that it did without it.
There is also no denying the fact that Obama and Hillary's backing for the Arab Spring, along with that of the media, proved crucial in overturning friendly regimes and bringing Islamists to power across the region leading to chaos and terror.
We might quibble over what the term "founder" exactly means, but there is no denying that ISIS, as we know it today, rose as a direct consequence of Obama and Hillary's support for Islamists.
ISIS is the consequence of their pro-Islamic policies brought to life. And that too cannot be denied. From Benghazi to Baghdad, the wages of the left's support for Islamic theocracy has been terror and death.