ISIS really earned their state dept checks.

Simultaneously served US geopolitical interests while being so utterly heinous with their cartoonish reactionary bullshit that the average American associates it with all Muslims...who are more often fierce opponents of the US, Al Qaeda, and ISIS. Their crimes could be pointed to when trying to win public support for "the war on terror"...which would coincidentally involve fighting other Muslim-majority groups.

Even libs who "opposed the wars" took the bait.