From Justin Dove, Editor, The Crux:

What was the United States’ role in the creation of ISIS?

The latest episode of Frontline offers some interesting revelations…

The episode follows the rise of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the so-called father of the today’s Islamic State, who was once rejected as a “thug” by Bin Laden himself.

According to Frontline, not only did the U.S. miss opportunities to stop al-Zarqawi early on… but Vice President Dick Cheney’s unreasonable desire to draw a connection between Saddam and the jihadists played a major role in giving al-Zarqawi undeserving legitimacy to his followers — making him an “international rock star in the jihadist community” overnight as Frontline explains.

The episode also covers how U.S. prisons in Iraq became known as “jihad universities,” fortifying the network of jihadists in the region… and how ignored protests and dissent toward U.S. forces from the Iraqi population provided the jihadists a steady flow of new recruits from Saddam’s old army.…