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Saturday, June 13, 2015

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The ISIS Creation Myth


ISISIn May, Jeb Bush was signing autographs after a town hall meeting in Reno, Nevada, when a 19-year-old college student challenged him. Bush had just blamed the rise of the Islamic State, better known as ISIS, on President Barack Obama’s decision to withdraw troops from Iraq. But the student, Ivy Ziedrich, a political science major at the University of Nevada, disagreed, saying the group’s evolution began much earlier—with former President George W. Bush’s invasion of the country. “Your brother,” she said, “created ISIS.”

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