protectionist
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Totally wrong, and I already explained . No need to reiterate, ISIS ass-kisser.
Totally wrong.
ISIS was in the west where the Sunni fled to after the US destroyed the Sunni government of Saddam and let the Iranian Shiites take over Iraq.
Zarqawi and al Qaeda was always in the north east no-fly-zone, where he was safe from attack by Saddam.
ISIS and al Qaeda had absolutely no connection at all, and still do not.
They were always mortal enemies.
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LMOST OVERNIGHT, the Islamic State sent its enemies reeling—and turned U.S. policy in the Middle East upside down. Islamic State forces carved out a haven in Syria and, in June 2014, routed the Iraqi army, capturing large swathes of territory and prompting the Obama administration to overcome its long-standing aversion to a bigger U.S. military role in Iraq and Syria. Even in many Arab countries where the Islamic State does not have a strong presence, its rise is radicalizing those countries’ populations, fomenting sectarianism and making a bad region even worse.
But there is one person for whom the Islamic State’s rise is even more frightening: Ayman al-Zawahiri. Although the Al Qaeda leader might be expected to rejoice at the emergence of a strong jihadist group that delights in beheading Americans (among other horrors), in reality the Islamic State’s rise risks Al Qaeda’s demise. When Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi rejected Al Qaeda’s authority and later declared a caliphate, he split the fractious jihadist movement. The two are now competing for more than the leadership of the jihadist movement: they are competing for its soul.
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ISIS vs. Al Qaeda: Jihadism’s global civil war | Brookings
Daniel L. Byman and Jennifer R. Williams explore the conflict between Al Qaeda and the Islamic State and the future of the global jihadist movement.www.brookings.edu