Contumacious
Radical Freedom
America Caused the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL or IS)
"It is true that the behavior of the IS stands miles apart from that of others who also are Muslims and who do not identify people as apostates and kill them. It is true that those doing this bear responsibility for their actions. However, although they have chosen to murder, they are not solely the cause or causes of their decisions. They didn’t create the context from which their evil has sprung. They didn’t intervene in the Middle East for decades on end. They didn’t apply sanctions to Iraq for years on end. They didn’t attack Iraq. They didn’t attack Libya and Afghanistan. They didn’t undermine Syria. They didn’t supply arms and training to various groups in these countries that they laid their hands on. They didn’t look the other way as various other Arab nations, allies of the U.S., supplied arms. Americans did all this and more."
"It is true that the behavior of the IS stands miles apart from that of others who also are Muslims and who do not identify people as apostates and kill them. It is true that those doing this bear responsibility for their actions. However, although they have chosen to murder, they are not solely the cause or causes of their decisions. They didn’t create the context from which their evil has sprung. They didn’t intervene in the Middle East for decades on end. They didn’t apply sanctions to Iraq for years on end. They didn’t attack Iraq. They didn’t attack Libya and Afghanistan. They didn’t undermine Syria. They didn’t supply arms and training to various groups in these countries that they laid their hands on. They didn’t look the other way as various other Arab nations, allies of the U.S., supplied arms. Americans did all this and more."