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ELI5: Why did Rand Paul say that the GOP "hawks" created ISIS?

and is there any truth to it?

I understand that the buildup to what we currently know as ISIS took place over several decades, but how much of that was due to US involvement? And was it just the GOP, or were the democrats involved as well?
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Paul is strongly anti-interventionist. In other words, he generally doesn't support the US going to war overseas. In the case of ISIS, while its roots are complex the leadership itself came together in an Iraqi prison camp post-invasion. The GOP charged in back in 2003 without much of a plan beyond removing Saddam. Paul's point of view is that the GOP 'hawks' shoot first and ask questions later, and this just makes things worse.

Whether he is correct, and how much Obama's policies since 2008 have affected it, is very contentious. You have hawks like McCain who blame Obama for withdrawing and leaving a power vacuum, but then again McCain's foreign policy pretty much consists of shooting at things and working out the details later (see Ukraine, Iraq, Syria etc etc). So how much Obama is to blame given the policies of his predecessors is difficult to judge.