Truer words were never spoken.
The media silently tolerated Hussein’s tactics. The press was decidedly anti-US war effort and served as enemy propagandists. No better than Mildred Gillars or Lord Haw Haw (both of whom at least wore the uniforms of the enemy in WWII).
Not sure about that “truth”. Assad still rules Syria where ISIS readily incubates.
“I despised Saddam’s police state, but the Islamic State would not exist under his rule”
But are those the only two options - Saddam or ISIS?
People get the government they deserve, and if those are the only choices they see, perhaps that’s what they deserve.
But there are other choices - though they may not come easy. As an example, the people of Egypt have managed to rid themselves of the brotherhood and Mubarek for something that’s perhaps better. I understand it remains to be seen, but at least they’re not being fatalistic. They’ve shed blood to get something they think is better.
At the end of the day, that is what it will take. The people themselves, not a foreign entity, have to fight for the government they want.
ISIS, ergo Sunni regional supremacy, was the driving force of Saddam’s Ba’athist party. The author won’t accept this because his own Sunni-supremacist ego compels him to blame someone else for ISIS rather than admit it is a supremacist organization.
Hint: The author is an ISIS sympathizer.