Isis rose from being an insignificant sect of cranks into a major International terrorist threat because the West didn't care enough to do something about a despot with a penchant for torturing and murdering anybody who spoke against him and his regime
Instead of opposing what he was doing, they sided with him against protesters demanding a better life and provided him with equipment which allowed him to imprison, torture and murder them
When all this is over, they will almost certainly seek to bury his crimes and BECOME HIS FRIEND AGAIN

I hate too tell you this but Saddam Hussein is dead. Keep up with the program!

The roots of ISIS trace back to 2004, when the organization known as “al Qaeda in Iraq” formed. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was originally part of Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda Network, founded this militant group.