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President Obama’s account of the rise of the Islamic State, says Charles Krauthammer, is “a Paulism” — referring to Kentucky’s senator Rand Paul, a likely 2016 presidential contender for the Republicans. “[Obama] always likes — this is a Paulism — he likes to say that if there’s terrorism, ultimately the cause is the United States’ meddling, as if our meddling in Syria is the cause of the rise of ISIS. That is simply ridiculously wrong, and it’s hard to take seriously somebody who can say something like that.”
“The criticism of Obama,” noted Krauthammer, is not that he has meddled, in Syria or anywhere else; it is that “he hasn’t done anything to make sure that Assad leaves. . . . He has never lifted a finger. He hasn’t armed the opposition. He hasn’t really helped them in any way except rhetorically.”
“The idea that the growth of ISIS is a result of the degrading of the strength of the regime in Damascus as done by the United States is preposterous,” Krauthammer said.