Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi…Made By USA

Americans take pride in their products, proclaiming them ‘Made in America’. One such creation we sought to kill rather than champion was ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdai. And kill him we did in a Syrian cave, hunted down by US Special Forces last week. While President Trump was taking a victory lap Sunday, describing with relish his grisly death, we shouldn’t ignore the fact that ISIS is an American creation. In our berserk response to the 911 attacks we invaded Iraq in one of the great examples of transference, substituting an innocent party for the actual perpetrators, ever. We destroyed and destabilized Iraqi society, setting the table for the growth of a Sunni Islamic cult that waged murder and mayhem in Iraq after the American version. Al-Baghdadi was one of over 25,000 Iraqi Sunnis America imprisoned after our takeover, creating the highly motivated cadre that became ISIS. Then we intervened in the Syrian civil war in 2013, helping to destroy and destabilize that country, enabling a new killing field for ISIS.

Had the US stayed out of the Middle East, hundreds of thousands would not have been killed or wounded. Millions would not have become refugees. There would never have been ISIS. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, not Made In America…Made By America.