How the Bush Presidency's opened the door for ISIS

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/04/iraq-war-bush-isis

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Illust by Barry Blitt.

It’s been a long quarter-century since the first President Bush put the U.S. on the road to an Iraq-Afghanistan quagmire. It’s been barely a year since ISIS became a national obsession. Michael Kinsley remembers what happened in between.

BY 

• MICHAEL KINSLEY

ILLUSTRATIONS BY 

• BARRY BLITT

It has been an unbelievable 25 years since George H. W. Bush started us on the adventure that still isn’t over in Iraq and Afghanistan. There are American soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East right now who weren’t even born when Bush the Elder declared the Iraqi invasion and occupation of Kuwait to be an intolerable situation and sent roughly half a million Americans halfway around the world to reverse it.