In other words, it’s Bush’s and the neocons fault for ISIS. This is why Rand Paul would force me to the sidelines and not vote if he was the nominee. His thinking on foreign policy is no different than any liberal Democrat and he’s using much of their rhetoric to attack conservatives.
There seem to be two parts to his statement.
The first is that guy’s like McCain and Graham who blindly followed (if not tried to actively push) Obama’s policy to arm any group trying to overthrow Assad are responsible for that portion of those groups that turned into ISIS.
He’s dead-on accurate with that. ISIS grew directly out of the “overthrow Assad at all costs) policy. Which was post-Bush and owned by Obama, McCain, Graham, etc.
The second part, tying it out historically, is the flawed portion. If he’d just stuck with the first part we’d all be singing his praises (even if not voting for him)