>>215333640
You're retarded, the war in Iraq, especially the insurgency, boosted Al-Qaeda to the point that their offshoot, ISIS, now owns Syria.
They went from dozens of people to hundreds of people all because the War in Iraq and the Sunni rebellion made them a world wide focal point for Sunni Arabs to support. Today the default Sunni worldview is de facto Al-Qaeda's jihadis wahhabism, when just a few decades ago it wasn't. Total Al-Qaeda victory.
Iraq on the other hand at the time had been secular and the opponents of Al-Qaeda. What did the US do? Destroy them so AL-Qaeda could rise in their place.
Pic related now runs Syria and the US supports him