Nonsense. The only purpose for the supposed context os to shift blame.context matters and to understand the overall you need to understand the history.This thread isn't about the 80's Joe. Nice to see you're incapable of having a discussion about modern geo political issues without pointing at a Republican from the past. Typical shallow no responsibility democrat
No, it's asking a valid question. Who are our allies there, and what are we willing to give them.
If you want to shift blame, back in WWI, we thought that the Autocrats were awful, so we let the forces of revolution topple the Hapsburgs, Hohenzollerns, Romanovs and Ottomans and broke up their empires.
And that resulted in Fascism spreading across the world. And we all thought Fascism was bad, so we made an alliance with Communism to beat that.
And then the Communists had us wetting our beds, so then we started throwing in with various Jihadists, and made policy not really knowing what the difference between a Sunni and a Shi'ite was.
Now we have two sides.
ISIL- which is being backed by Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Jordan... our supposed friends who nevertheless funded these assholes because they didn't want to see the Shi'ites gain the upper hand.
On the other side, the Shi'ites. The regime in Baghdad, combined with their friends in Iran and the Allawite rulers in Syria.
Okay, I've filled out the scorecard for you, bud. Who are our friends who aren't going to stab us in the back in 10 years?