I do believe that the Obama administration is largely responsible for the crisis in Iraq and Syria.
There are many who believe that the uprising in the Arabic countries (Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Syria) was orchestrated by the CIA ... and in that is true, you can assume that the Obama administration must have OK:d it.
I dunno, but I would not be surprised if that was true. CIA have sometimes given support to groups, who later veer off to pursue their own objectives, that are not always in line with what the US gov. wants. Previous examples of that were Saddam Hussein (who George Bush Sr once called "Our friend in the Middle East") , and then the Taliban.
In fact, the invasion of Afghanistan at the end of 2001 was not originally planned as revenge for the WTC but had already been planned as punishment of the Taliban for severing their ties with the US and not agreeing to a planned oil pipeline through their country. The propaganda machine against the Taliban was already in full swing before 911, and the WTC bombings was very convenient.
You're neglecting to acknowledge the fact that if Obama did not have all the troops withdrawn from Iraq in 2011, then the IS situation would have been largely prevented.
I thinkt that is a simplification. IS (ISIL) started in Syria and then invaded the north of Iraq. USA has never had much of a military presence in northern Iraq but have left that to be handled by Kurdish militia. Even now, it is mostly the Kurdish militia that is fighting IS in Iraq, not so much the Iraq military.
Anyway when I was younger I remember a scene in that movie where the Chinese came out and declared "Religion is Poison."
That looks like a misquote of Karl Marx, who wrote the Communist Manifesto. In that, he wrote "Religion is opium for the people".
You must be referring to Bill Clinton then. You'll find some interesting things went on during the mid-late 1990's that encouraged the subprime lending boom/bust.
I think that Reagan before him also did deregulate banks in ways that made them able to destabilise the economy, but I don't remember the details.
