McCaskill says Trump and ‘his friend Putin’ are more to blame for ISIS than Obama, Clinton

[TexasTowelie]

Barack Obama the founder of the Islamic State? No, insisted Hillary Clinton surrogate Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, that’s more the work of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

The Democratic U.S. senator appeared on “Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace” to carry the day’s talking points for the Clinton campaign.

First, she defended the presidential nominee against growing charges of conflicts of interest between Clinton’s service as secretary of state and the internationally focused foundation she leads with her husband.

Then Wallace asked her about Trump’s statement last week that Obama was “the founder” of the Islamic State — also known as ISIS, or ISIL — and that Clinton, as secretary of state, was “co-founder.”

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[DetlefK]

1. Actually, Putin isn't the least bit to blame.

ISIS was founded in Iraq by Al-Qaeda and sunni rebels.

The war in Syria broke loose because global warming led to drought in Syria, which led to dying farms, which led to fear of an impending famine, which led to demands for more freedom, which led to a crackdown by the Assad-regime.
Putin has zero interest in Syria, apart from Syria allowing the russian fleet to use its ports in the Mediterranean Sea. And Putin only became involved when the war dragged on so long that this port-deal became endangered. Syria is mainly a lackey of Iran. The ties to Russia were thin before the civil-war.




And on the topic of global-warming kicking off the war... Climatologists have calculated that the whole region of the Persian Gulf will be so hot in 50-100 years, it will literally be almost uninhabitable for unprotected humans.
The UAE, Qatar, eastern and central Saudi-Arabia, Kuwait, southern Iraq, southern Iran. There will be massive heat there.

[Wilms]

2. As usual, it might be best if McCaskill said nothing. n/t