I am not trying to say that it is a one to one correspondence as in our presence and their existence. They are already a faction, but our presence has only destabilized the area, armed them, and emboldened the recruitment. We seem to feel the fix is to bomb the shit out of them, whether Trump or Clinton, but that is what has gotten us into this pit. This is NOT the approach we should be taking. What they are doing is deplorable, but it is hard for us to make that argument and point fingers when we helped start it and our positions and "retaliations" are just as problematic.

People hate Trump for saying we should murder their family members, but we are already doing way worse than that.