Letter to the Editor: Setting the record straight on ISIS

In current politics, one opinion claims that President Obama’s withdrawal of the U.S. military created ISIS.

Were perceptions true, we would not need facts for anything.

Historical facts, however, show that ISIS had a history of name changing before Presidents Bush and Obama.

First, ISIS began in the late 1990s as a terrorist group to overthrow the Jordanian government. After President George W. Bush invaded Iraq in December of 2003, the group was named “Al-Qaida in Iraq.”

Second, after the U.S. killed the group’s leader in June of 2006, the name changed to ISI (Islamic State in Iraq) in Octob...